I feel that I am looking at an out-of-society reconstruction here.
The blade does appear to be Bali, the visible part of the wrongko could possibly have been produced by reshaping a damaged original.
The craftsmanship of the hilt is not Balinese, Javanese, nor of any other SE Asian society that I can readily identify.
The orange in the sogokan I feel was probably originally red, so with red + black + the symbolism of Siwa carried by the sogokan, we have the trimurti:- Siwa-Brahma-Wisnu. This would be a part of the out-of-culture work, it would not have been done in Bali, but could have been added by a person with some understanding of socio-religious mores in Bali.
Opinion only, I have never seen anything like this previously.
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