Centuries of Time: A Private Collection
Centuries of Time: A Private Collection
A gold and polychrome enamel painted pair cased quarter repeating verge watch with pulse piece and associated gold and enamel painted chatelaine Circa 1770, no. 1061
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May 14, 02:23 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Richard Wilder, London
A gold and polychrome enamel painted pair cased quarter repeating verge watch with pulse piece and associated gold and enamel painted chatelaine
Circa 1770, no. 1061
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, fusee and chain, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, silver regulation plate, repeating on a bell signed Drury to the reverse or via a pulse piece through bezel, gilt-metal dust cap, movement and dust capsigned and numbered Rich. Wilder, London, no. 1061
• Dial: white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, gilt filigree hands
• Case: gold inner case, decoratively pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, a mask to the base and engraved with a bird to the back • gold outer case, the back polychrome enamel painted pastoral scene with restoration and depicting a young man playing pipes and serenading two ladies tending their sheep a dog at their feet, both bezels with translucent blue enamel over a decoratively engraved ground, heightened with scrolling gold motif, pierced at the quarters and around the painted scene for sound emission, plunge pendant for repeating, pulse piece through bezel of outer case by 7 o'clock, diamond-set thumbpiece, inner and outer cases with incuse maker's mark HT
• Chatelaine: composed of polychrome enamel painted gold panels, two pendant chains terminating in hooks, the pendant hook's panel with classical allegorical scene, three suspended square panels each depicting a gentleman and a lady respectively with a song bird, basket of fruit and a basket of eggs, the panels flanked by pendant chains composed of slim links polychrome enamel painted with flowers, further asymmetrical panel with a gentleman and a lady joining the pendant chains and central panels, pendant hook with maker's mark PB beneath a crown
diameter 49 mm, length overall, length of chatelaine 115 mm