Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」

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J.W. Benson, London

A FINE GOLD AND ENAMEL HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH MULTIPLE TIME ZONES MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET 1869, NO. 30515 [ 黃金畫琺瑯多地時間懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份約1869，編號30515]

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J.W. Benson, London

A FINE GOLD AND ENAMEL HUNTING CASED WATCH WITH MULTIPLE TIME ZONES MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET

1869, NO. 30515

[ 黃金畫琺瑯多地時間懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份約1869，編號30515]

• Movement: gilded three-quarter plate movement, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, decoratively engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, fusee and chain, signed and numbered J. W. Benson Watch & Clock Maker to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 25 Old Bond Street, London, 30515

• Dial: silvered dial, satin finished chapter ring with Roman numerals, outer minute ring, dial centre decoratively engraved with foliate scrolls, four sunken subsidiary dials each with gilded boss to their centre and displaying time in London, Mecca, Constantinople and New York, blued steel hands, signed J. W. Benson, London

•Case: 18ct gold, the cover with polychrome enamel painted cartouche depicting a bouquet of flowers against a light blue opaque enamel background, gold scalloped border, outer enamel ring composed of translucent green and opaque white enamel stylised flowers against a translucent guilloché red enamel ground, case back with similarly decorated enamel border and centred with an enamel monogram, all against a translucent red enamel ground over engine-turning, gold bezels and band with stylised flower heads, case back hallmarked London 1869, plain polished cuvette with central aperture to simultaneously adjust all time zones via a single setting square, aperture for winding, case front, back and cuvette with case maker's mark AS for Alfred Stram and each numbered 30515

diameter 50mm

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Antiquorum Geneva, 16-17 November 2002, lot 159

At the time of the sale of this watch at Antiquorum in 2002, it was said to have been made for the Indian market and to bear the initials of the Nizam of Hyderabad. The Sixth Nizam of Hyderabad was Asaf Jah VI, born Mir Mahbub Ali Khan in 1866. He became Nizam in 1869 at age three and served as Nizam until 1911. The present lot was likely a gift at the time Ali Khan became the Nizam.