11,500 HKD
Molyneux & Cope, 44 Devonshire Street, London, No. 439, with London hallmarks for 1821. Fine and unusual silver hunting cased watch with special escapement and temperature compensation. (Thomas Carpenter). D. Egg shell enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gold "pear" hands. M. Hinged gi Egg shell enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gold "pear" hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, duplex escapement, plain gilt brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator and unusual bimetallic compensation curb on the index, diamond endstone. Signed on the movement. h1 very good condition. Diam. 55 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-06-03