Fine English silver pair-cased verge pocket watch Circa 1710

Silver pair-cased verge watch
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A fine English silver pair-cased verge pocket watch, circa 1710. Gilt brass movement, divided Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain with worm and wheel set-up, verge escapement, three-arm steel balance with flat balance spring, pierced and engraved balance cock with streamers, silver regulation disc. Silver champlevé dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, centre with lion and unicorn signature cartouches beneath a crown, pierced gilt hands. Polished outer case, inner case polished, split bezel, shuttered winding aperture, loose ring pendant. Dial and movement signed.
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Diameter: 58 mm
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Signed: Tompion London
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This watch is not made by the celebrated maker Thomas Tompion, it is perhaps by the maker G. Tompion who is recorded working circa 1715 or made by an unknown maker falsely using Tompion’s name.