7,670 CHF
“Gold Pair-Cased” Brouncker Watts, London, No. 715. The inner case with London hallmarks for 1709-10. Very fine and rare, 22K gold pair-cased pocket watch. Outer: two-body, polished, square hinge, inner: two-body, "bassine" with deep back, polished, loose ring pendant. Gold, matte, champlevé radial Roman numerals, inner half-hour divisions, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals on polished cartouches, chased center with mask and scrolls. Blued steel "beetle and poker" hands. 41 mm., gilt brass full plate with divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, finely pierced and engraved single-footed English cock with streamers, silver regulation dial. Dial and movement signed. Both cases with mastermark WB. Diam. 57 mm. SFr. To be sold without reserve Notes Brouncker Watts Worked in Fleet Street, London. He was apprenticed in 1684 and free of the Clockmakers Company in 1693. He died in 1719. The present watch was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, November 16, 2002, lot 9.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
