English clock watch made for the Chinese market Circa 1780
- Kenmerk
- CH1332
- Diameter
- 61 mm
- Estimate
- € 8.000 - 15.000
- Price sold
- € 10.150
Decorated grande sonnerie cylinder watch by Edward Tomlin
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A fine and rare English gilt brass, enamel, pearl and paste set quarter striking grande sonnerie keywound cylinder clockwatch with center seconds made for the Chinese market, circa 1780.
Gilt finished cylinder movement finely engraved with floral and scroll decoration, pierced and engraved balance cock with diamond set endstone, plain three armed balance, fusée and chain, silver regulation disc, en passant quarter repeating on two hammers onto a bell, gilt brass dust cap. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, gold poker and beetle hands, blued steel center seconds, outer Arabic five minute divisions. Inner case with pierced and engraved sides, the back with floral and scroll decoration, sonnerie/strike lever in the band, outer case pierced and engraved with similarly decorated front and back rims, pearl and red paste set bezel, the reverse centred by a polychrome enamel vignette showing a lady kneeling at the altar of love and before Cupid, all surrounded by a translucent red champlevé enamel frame and white beads, large plain pendant and leaf decorated bow. Dust cap signed and numbered.
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Diameter outer case: 61 mm
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Signed: Edw Tomlin Royal Exchange London
Signed: Edw Tomlin Royal Exchange London




















