36,800 HKD
Cabrier, London, circa 1760. Fine 20K gold pair cased, quarter-repeating watch. Gilt silver, champlevé Roman chapters with rosette half-hour markers, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers on oval polished cartouches, matte bckground, the center pierced with foliage on blued steel background. Blued steel “poker and beetle” hands. 32 mm ø, gilt brass full plate, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, single-footed English style cock, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate and Roman markers, repeating on a bell by depressing the pendant, gilt dust-cap with an aperture for the regulator.Signed on the dial and movement, dust-cap engraved “London”. Inner case stamped “34 IDS”.Diam 48 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-06-08
