71,300 CHF
Markwick Markham,Perrigal, London, circa 1780. Very fine and impressive large silver triple-cased quarter striking coach watch with quarter-repeating, alarm and date. Outer: two-body, pierced and engraved with foliate pattern, covered and studded with shagreen. Middle: two-body, back engraved with a flower vase, musical and military trophies, bezels pierced and engraved with foliate pattern, each bezel with four cartouches engraved with military and musical trophies, silver thumb-piece. Inner: two-body, "bassine", band pierced and engraved with foliate pattern, back centered with foliate rosette. White enamel, radial Islamic numerals, outer minute trac, five-minute Islamic markers, inner 31-day Arabic calendar ring. Blued steel Breguet hands. 76 mm., hinged, frosted gilt full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement, brass balance with flat balance spring, single-footed cock, striking and alarm with fixed barrels, pull repeat driven by the striking train, gilt brass dust-cap.Signed on dial, movement, and dust-cap, pendant punched "AHM".Diam. 181 mm. Notes James Markwick & Markwick Markham. There were two London makers named James Markwick, who were father and son. The elder was apprenticed on 25 June 1656 to Richard Taylor, and subsequently to Edward Gilpin. He became free of the Clockmaker's Company on 6 August 1666. Six apprentices were bound to him between 1674 and 1699. In 1673 he succeeded to Samuel Betts behind the Royal Exchange. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-14
