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FRENCH, LONDON | A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING WATCH CIRCA 1850, NO. 5683
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FRENCH, LONDON
A GOLD OPEN-FACED QUARTER REPEATING WATCH
CIRCA 1850, NO. 5683
• Movement: gilded, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, repeating on coiled gongs, signed and numbered French, Royal Exchange, London, No. 5683
• Dial: silvered guilloché, Roman numerals, blued steel hands
• Case: 18ct gold, engine-turned back, piston in pendant for repeat, gold cuvette with inscription: 'Return to Sir David Salomans, Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells', case maker's mark LC
diameter 45.5mm
Accompanied by an associated Desoutter retailer's presentation case
The Sir David Salomons Collection
Vera Bryce Salomons
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. WA 15-70
George Daniels & Ohannes Markarian, Watches and Clocks in the Sir David Salomons Collection, 1980, p.199, figs. 119-119b