18,975 CHF
John Ellicott, London, No. 1610, case marked "JB"(John Beesley), with London hallmarks for 1734.Fine 22K gold pair-cased watch. Outer: two-body, the bezel repoussé with flowers and pierced with foliage, the back repoussé with a mythological scene depicting Jupiter and Juno, the border pierced and engraved with foliage and repoussé with four putti in cartouches. Inner: two-body, "bassine", polished. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Blued steel "poker and beetle" hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with elaborate pillars, pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, fusee with chain,erge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance-spring, gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with a mask and scrolling foliage,diamond endstone.Signed on the back plate, inner case punched "J.B.".Diam. 48 mm. Notes This watch is published in the Ruscitti book, as no. 25.John Ellicott (1706-1772)One of the most eminent English clock and watchmakers, and the son of John Ellicott, a warden of the Clockmakers' Company. In 1738 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, being recommended for that honor by Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., Martin Folkes, John Senex, the celebrated globe maker, and John Hadley, the astronomer. At the meeting of the Royal Society, he became acquainted with James Ferguson, who afterwards frequently visited Ellicott's private house at St. John's Hackney, where an obseratory was built, and various scientific experiments were
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-10-13
