18,400 CHF
Jeremie Gregory, Royal Exchange (London), circa 1665. Fine silver pair-cased pre balance spring, single hand watch. Outer: double-body, shagreen-covered. Inner: double-body, "bassine", polished, with split bezel and loose-ring pendant. Silver with radial Roman numerals, the center engraved with a scene depicting a shepherd and his sheep in the foreground, a village in the back. Blued steel arrow single hand. Hinged gilt brass full plate with early Egyptian pillars, fusee with gut-line, short train, verge escapement, circular steel foliot, worm-and-wheel set-up with pierced blued steel brackets and slver regulator disc, silver florally pierced and engraved cock secured by a screw.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 50 mm. Notes Jeremie Gregory (d. 1685)Worked in London, Cornhill. He was a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1652, and master in 1665. A maker of repute, a traveling clock by him is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a silver alarm watch in the Guildhall Museum, and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-11-16
