Edward East, Londini

• gilt full plate movement, pierced and engraved pinned-on balance cock, plain steel balance, worm and wheel set-up, gut line fusee, early Egyptian pillars • silver dial finely engraved to the centre with daffodils and tulips, Roman numerals with quarter and half-hour divisions, gilt dial plate with floral engraving, floriate hand • the rock crystal covers with radiating facets, the bezel and case with floral engraving • movement signed Edward East, Londini

Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, p.77 pl. 34

The movement is running at the time of cataloguing. Dial in good condition. There is a crack to the rock crystal case by the pendant. There is a slight scratch to the cover and some minor tarnishing to the bezel.
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By the early 1650s, watches were made to be worn in some form of pocket and therefore pendant watches from the Commonwealth period are rarely seen. The rock crystal to both the front and back of the case have radiating facets which emanate from small, slightly dished, centres, matched by the edges of the gilt metal case. Shorter subsidiary lobes are cut on the facets, giving the overall impression of flower heads. The dial is beautifully engraved with fine and subtle shading providing an excellent three-dimensional effect. A comparison can be made with slightly earlier dials by Masterson and Drake, see lots: 13 and 17.

For a note on Edward East, see lot 10.