Raimbault

RIMBAULT - QUARTER STRIKING & CENTER SECONDS COACH WATCH Paul Rimbault, London, No. 1101. Made for the Chinese market, circa 1780. Very rare, large, pair-cased, gilt brass, painted on enamel and paste-set, center-seconds two-train coach watch with quarter striking. OUTER: Two-body, the pierced and engraved bezel set with red and white pastes, the back set with a fine painted on enamel panel in the Renaissance style depicting a lady seated beneath a tree in a landscape with vases of flowers, a dog at her knee, pierced and engraved border. INNER: Two-body, bassine, polished bezel with Go/Stop and Strike/Silent levers protruding, pierced and engraved foliate band, engraved back. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute and second divisions. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. 52 mm., gilt brass full plate, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three armed steel balance, flat balance spring, finely pierced and engraved foliate single- footed cock and backplate furniture, striking on a bell in the back of the case. Movement signed. Notes DIAM. 90 mm. A good example of an English coach watch made for the Chinese market. The painted on enamel scene is particularly charming and done in the Italian Renaissance style. Paul Rimbault was working in Denmark Street, London between 1770 and 1785. A clock by him is in the Peiping Museum.