Recordon

An 18ct gold open face watch, Recordon late Emery, No.2115, London, 1801

45mm white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds dial and signed Recordon late Emery, London , full plate fusee movement with maintaining power, duplex escapement with plain steel three arm balance, finely pierced and engraved balance cock with diamond endstone, signed Recordon, Cock Spur Street, Charing Cross, London and numbered three times 2115 , signed and numbered dust cap, the consular case with hallmarks for London 1801 and case makers mark HD, engine turned, the reverse engraved with the arms of Henry James Montagu-Scott, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton (1776 - 1845)Louis Recordon was a Swiss watchmaker who moved from Geneva to London in the 1770s and established his business in Greek Street, Soho. He maintained strong connections in both Switzerland and Paris and was agent for Abraham Louis Breguet in London. In the early 1790s he took into partnership another Genevan watchmaker, Charles Dupont, and they moved to Tottenham Court Road. In 1795 they took over the business of Josiah Emery at 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross but in 1800 Dupont left the partnership leaving Recordon to sign his watches Recordon late Emery. Louis Recordon retired in 1816 and was succeeded in Cockspur Street by Peter Des Granges. He died in 1824.