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

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James McCabe, London

A GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET OPEN-FACED WATCH MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET 1868, NO. 05242 [黃金飾琺瑯鑲鑽石懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份1868，編號05242]

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James McCabe, London

A GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET OPEN-FACED WATCH MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET

1868, NO. 05242

[黃金飾琺瑯鑲鑽石懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份1868，編號05242]

• Movement: gilded ³/₄ plate, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, diamond endstone, signed and numbered Jas. McCabe, Royal Exchange London, no. 05242

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, blued steel hands, lacking hour hand

• Case: 18ct gold, the back with geometric gold scrolling decoration against a translucent red enamel guilloché ground, bordered by a row of diamonds and further single diamond to the centre and to pendant, front bezel plain gold, fixed gold inner cuvette, case back and cuvettehallmarked London 1868, with case maker's mark AS for Alfred Stram further stamped I[J]MC and numbered 05242

diameter 49mm

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A concise history of the McCabe family by Paul Hackamack can be found in Antiquarian Horology, No. 3, Vol. 10, Summer 1977, pp. 308-316. James McCabe was born c. 1748 in Ireland near to Belfast and moved to London in 1775. The firm is recorded at Fleet Street, Cheapside and the Royal Exchange. In 1781, McCabe was made a Freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company, later becoming a Warden. James died in 1811 and the firm was continued by his youngest son Robert. Robert died in 1860 and, in turn, his eldest son, Robert Jeremy McCabe, continued the family business until he closed it in 1879/80. Robert Jeremy appears to have spent the remainder of his life as “a man of independent means” and died in 1902 [op. cit. p. 309]. For another watch by McCabe, made for the Indian market, see: Sotheby's London, The Collection of a Connoisseur, 14 July 2020, lot 76.