CONTINENTAL | A SILVER VERGE WATCH WITH DATE, CIRCA 1710

Property from an Important Italian Collection

CONTINENTAL

A SILVER VERGE WATCH WITH DATE

CIRCA 1710

Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, pierced and engraved balance cock, fusee and chain, Egyptian pillars, spuriously bearing the signature Tompion, London

Dial: silver champlevé, Roman numerals, Arabic outer track, half hour divisions, aperture for date, beetle and poker hands, spuriously bearing the signature Tompion, London within a cartouche with scrolling decoration

Case: plain silver, maker's mark IC, shuttered winding aperture, outer case lacking

diameter 51mm

Accompanied by a later associated presentation case