20,000 HKD
DANIEL QUARE LONDON D(aniel) Quare, London No. 2112. Made circa 1710. Fine and rare, gold and shagreen pocket watch. Accompanied by a key. Two-body, "bassine" with deep back, polished, shagreen back and bezel. Gold with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outermost Arabic five minute markers. Blued steel Beetle and Poker hands. 38 mm. hinged gilt brass full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass English clock with streamers, pierced and engraved with a mask and foliage. Notes Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2016-07-09