7,935 CHF
Robert Roskell, Liverpool, No. 26265, with Chester hallmarks for 1818-1819. Very fine 18K gold watch with special escapement, accompanied by a matching seal fitted with an agate engrave with a passing lion. Three body, with integral dome, the band, pendant and bow with a cast shell-fish decoration. Gold with Roman numerals over a matted ground, subsidiary seconds and engine-turned centre, a gold cast floral decoration on border of the bezel. Gold "spade " hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, extra large Liverpool jewelling, fusee with chain and maintaining power, rack lever escapement, plain polished steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, English cock engraved with floral decoration, Patent, diamond end-stone. Gilt brass dust cap. Signed on the back plate. Diam. 56 mm. Notes The inscription Patent , engraved on the balance cock, refers to the invention of the rack lever escapement, patented by Litterlandni 1791. This watch is a very good example of rack lever escapement, made by the best Liverpool watch production, of which the main featu r es are the band cast shell-fish decoration, the gold dial with cast floral decoration on the border and the movement with the typical extra large jewelling.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-04-24
