18,880 CHF
“Gold Pair-Cased Clockwatch” J. Stretch, Londino. The case with London hallmarks for 1703. Fine and rare, 22K gold, pair-cased, double-train, hour-striking clockwatch. Outer: two-body, the bezel and band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage, each with four vignettes of masks and landscapes, polished center. Inner: twobody, "bassine", polished split bezel, the band pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage and two vignettes of rural landscapes, loose ring pendant. Gold champlevé with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Blued steel "tulip and poker" hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate double-train with turned baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm steel balance, flat balance-spring, gilt brass winged cock with streamers and pierced and engraved with a mask and inhabited foliage. Striking train with fixed gilt brass pierced and engraved barrel with revolving arbor, striking on a bell mounted in the back of the case, strike/silence lever in the bezel. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes The present lot was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, June 14, 2003, lot 159. Joseph Stretch Is recorded as working in Birmingham in the first part of the 18th century.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
