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Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
Masterworks of Time: Splendours for the East 「時間傑作：西器東傳」
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Frazer & Haws, London
AN IMPRESSIVE GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET HALF QUARTER REPEATING HUNTING CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET 1870, NO. 12272 [ 黃金飾琺瑯鑲鑽石半刻報時懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份1870，編號12272]
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Frazer & Haws, London
AN IMPRESSIVE GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND-SET HALF QUARTER REPEATING HUNTING CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH MADE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET
1870, NO. 12272
[ 黃金飾琺瑯鑲鑽石半刻報時懷錶，為印度市場製造，年份1870，編號12272]
• Movement: frosted gilded 3/4 plate, lever escapement, jewelled to the centre, bi-metallic compensation balance, diamond end-stone, half-quarter repeating on coiled gongs, signed and numbered Frazer & Haws, 31 Regent Street, London, no. 12272
• Dial: gold, heavily chased and engraved with scrolling foliage, a star motif to the centre, black Roman numerals, pearled outer minute track, two rings with applied vari-colour gold decoration depicting flowers and foliage, engine-turned subsidiary seconds, blued steel fleur-de-lys hands
• Case: 18ct gold, the cover with turquoise enamel and blazing sun and star motifs heightened by diamonds and the legend 'Heaven's Light our Guide', case back covered with turquoise enamel and diamond-set star, bow and quatrefoil motifs, band and bezels chased and engraved with geometric motifs, recessed repeating slide decorated en suite, pusher for hand-setting beside pendant, gold cuvette highly chased and engraved and with roundels and quatrefoils decorated with translucent blue guilloché enamel, London hallmarks for 1870 and case maker's mark RB within oval cartouche possibly Richard Macaire Ball
diameter 51mm
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Frazer and Haw[e]s are listed by Loomes in Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World as active between 1875 and 1909. There is also a rather charming reference to the firm in The Horological Journal of April 1892 where it is noted that: "Frazer and Hawes, have also some pretty things".
The blazing sun and star motif seen here is the symbol of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, an order of chivalry founded in 1861 by Queen Victoria. After several years of upheaval and unrest against British Colonization in India, Great Britain successfully consolidated its power and established this order of knighthood to honour Indian Princes and Chiefs, and British officers who aided the British Empire. The present piece also displays the motto of the order, Heaven's Light Our Guide. The motto was specifically neutral so it appealed to people from many different faiths, as India was extremely religiously diverse.