17,825 CHF
Thomas Chamberlaine de Chelmesforde, circa 1660. Very fine silver pre-balance spring, single-hand watch with date indication. 41 mm o, hinged, gilded full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut-lie, verge escapement, two-arm steel balance without a spring, elongated gilded cock symmetrically pierced and engraved with flowers, short four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, worm and wheel set-up with silver plate and Arabic numerals from 1 to 8 filled with red wax.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 49 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 90-91. Notes Chamberlaine Thomasis listed as having been active in Chelmesforde in the middle of the 17th century. Several examples being preserved in the British Museum and Vicoria and Albert Museum, S. Kensington.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-03-31
