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Edmund Bull
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
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Description
- A RARE SILVER OVAL PURITAN VERGE WATCH WITH LEATHER COVERED OUTER PROTECTIVE CASECIRCA 1635
- leather, silver, gilt metal
- length 32 x 43mm
• gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, pierced and engraved balance cock, flat steel balance, gut line fusee, round baluster pillars, ratchet and click set-up • silver dial, Roman numerals, blued steel floriate hour hand • plain silver case with shuttered winding aperture to rear, rock crystal lunette secured by screwed brass rim • plain black leather outer protective case • movement signed Edmund Bull me Fecit
Literature
Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, pp. 58, pl. 21
Catalogue Note
A member of the Blacksmiths' Company, together with his former master, Robert Grinkin (see lot 7), Edmund Bull was one of the 1622 Petitioners for a Clockmakers’ Company, but for some reason did not become a member when the Company was founded in 1631.