Sold for:
$3,540
$3,540
Edward Prior, London, No. 38446. Made for the Islamic market, circa 1810. Fine, quadruple-cased, silver and tortoiseshell pocket watch. Outer: two-body, wooden with grooved top, leather-lined, 2nd: two-body, covered with tortoise-shell, 3rd: twobody, silver, polished with repeated pattern on edges, inner: silver, bassine, polished. White enamel with early Arabic numerals. Pink gold "beetle and poker" hands. 36 mm, gilt brass, full plate with pierced Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three arm balance, flat balance spring and English gilt brass cock. Dial and back plate signed. Diam. ca. 72 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28
