5,290 CHF
Thomas Wagstaffe, London, No. 6526. Made circa 1760. Fine, silver quarter repeating pair-cased pocket watch. Outer: two-body, pierced, chased and engraved with foliate scrolls; Inner: two-body, polished bezel, pierced, chased and engraved with foliate scrolls and a grotesque mask. Gilt brass dust cover. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute markers and Arabic five-minute numerals. Blued steel “beetle and poker” hands. 30 mm., gilt brass full-plate, tapered cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance, pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond endstone, silvered regulation dial, repeating with two hammers on a bell in the back of the case activated by depressing the pendant, stop lever in the bezel. Movement and dust cap signed. Diam. 50 mm. Notes Thomas Wagstaffe Worked in Carey Street and Gracechurch Street, London, between 1756 and 1793.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
