23,600 HKD
"Large Quarter Repeater, Duplex Escapement" R(ichar)d Webster, Cornhill, London, No. 5145. The case with London hallmarks for 1817 - 1818. Very fine and rare, large, quarter-repeating, 18K gold pocket watch with duplex escapement. Four-body, "pomme", polished, the back cover engraved with a coat of arms and the motto "Non Immemor Beneficii" (not forgetful of a helping hand). Hinged gold cuvette. Gold, matted chapter ring with polished radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute indexes, subsidiary seconds, engine-turned center. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes Richard Webster Working in London, apprenticed in 1800, free of the Clockmakers Company in 1807.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
