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Jacob Kock, Stockholm

A Gold Oversized Single Cased Watch With Black Enamel Dial, Circa 1767

Lot Closed

April 14, 10:02 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jacob Kock, Stockholm

A Gold Oversized Single Cased Watch With Black Enamel Dial,

Circa 1767


Movement: gilded full plate, large pierced balance bridge decoratively engraved with scrolling foliage, flat three-arm balance, fusee and chain, square baluster pillars • signed and numbered Jacob Kock, Stockholm103

• Dial: black enamel, white Arabic hour numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, decorative paste set skeletonised hands

• Case: gold plain outer case with engraved bezels and band, with gold and case maker's mark [indistinct and rubbed], gilt-metal bow

diameter 75mm

Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois,  Inv.no. 3636

Sotheby's, Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part Two, New York, June 19th, 2002, lot 76

Jacob Kock (1737-1805) from Stockholm was clockmaker to King Gustav III of Sweden. See Loomes, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World (2006, p.453)