John Hodges, London
A RARE SMALL SILVER SINGLE CASED VERGE WATCH CIRCA 1740, NO. 1022
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The Celebration of the English Watch Part IV, George Daniels 20th Century Innovator
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John Hodges, London
A RARE SMALL SILVER SINGLE CASED VERGE WATCH CIRCA 1740, NO. 1022
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, decoratively pierced balance cock engraved with foliage and a grotesque mask at the neck, similarly decorated broad foot, flat balance, fusee and chain, baluster pillars, signed John Hodges, London, 1022
• Dial: silver champlevé, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands, central cartouches signed and numbered Hodges, London
• Case: plain silver, the back with shuttered winding aperture, case maker's mark EG with star above for Edward Gibbons
width 38mm
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• Dial: silver champlevé, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands, central cartouches signed and numbered Hodges, London
• Case: plain silver, the back with shuttered winding aperture, case maker's mark EG with star above for Edward Gibbons
width 38mm
Literature
Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, 2009, pp. 194-195, pl. 106
Catalogue Note
This is an unusually small watch by John Hodges who was working in Clements Lane, close to Monument, in the City of London in 1729; nine years later he had moved over the other side of Lombard street to Exchange Alley. The silver case was made by Edward Gibbons who registered his mark in 1736.
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