AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE GOLD AND ENAMEL PAIR CASED QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH CHATELAINE
CIRCA 1760, NO. 531
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE GOLD AND ENAMEL PAIR CASED QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH CHATELAINE
CIRCA 1760, NO. 531
gold and enamel diameter 48 mm , • gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, repeating on a bell • gilt metal dust cap • white enamel dial, Roman numerals, pierced gold hands • gold inner case, the back with an engraved basket of flowers, decoratively pierced and engraved band, engraved pastoral scene below the pendant and a grotesque mask at the base, pulse piece at 7 o'clock, yellow gold outer case decorated with roses of pink and white enamel with translucent green enamel foliage against bright-cut line-work background, diamond-set thumb piece, matching gilt-metal chatelaine decorated en-suite with pendant chains , inner case with maker's mark DA probably for Daniel Aveline • movement signed Wm Deards London 531, dust cap signed and numberedWilliam Deards, London, Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
, AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE GOLD AND ENAMEL PAIR CASED QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH CHATELAINE
CIRCA 1760, NO. 531
gold and enamel diameter 48 mm , • gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, repeating on a bell • gilt metal dust cap • white enamel dial, Roman numerals, pierced gold hands • gold inner case, the back with an engraved basket of flowers, decoratively pierced and engraved band, engraved pastoral scene below the pendant and a grotesque mask at the base, pulse piece at 7 o'clock, yellow gold outer case decorated with roses of pink and white enamel with translucent green enamel foliage against bright-cut line-work background, diamond-set thumb piece, matching gilt-metal chatelaine decorated en-suite with pendant chains , inner case with maker's mark DA probably for Daniel Aveline • movement signed Wm Deards London 531, dust cap signed and numbered , The Kenneth Snowman, Wartski Collection, Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970 , pp. 220-221, pl. 131, This high quality gold and enamel chatelaine watch is signed by someone who appears not to be a member of the Clockmakers’ Company. The watch is in wonderful condition, and dates to the early 1760s. However, Arthur Grimwade has a biographical note in his book on London Goldsmiths’ marks of two makers of this name, presumably father, who died in 1761, and son who continued working into the 1770s. They were recorded as goldsmiths and ‘toymen’, a toyman being a vendor of luxury goods, including watches with embossed and decorated cases.
