English 20K gold and bloodstone repoussé watch Circa 1760
- Kenmerk
- TA1083
- Diameter
- 42 mm
- Estimate
- € 4.000 - 7.500
- Price sold
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Gold hunter cased verge watch
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A fine English 20K gold repoussé, bloodstone and diamond-set pocket watch by R. Sanders London, circa 1760. The hinged bezel is set with panels of polished bloodstone within a chased repoussé scroll and shell framework, the back with a large polished bloodstone panel within a rococo scroll and flower border, rose diamond set thumb piece.–
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Rose diamond-set pierced hands. Gilt, full plate movement turned baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, threearm balance with flat balance spring, pierced and engraved balance cock, silvered regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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A fine English 20K gold repoussé, bloodstone and diamond-set pocket watch by R. Sanders London, circa 1760. The hinged bezel is set with panels of polished bloodstone within a chased repoussé scroll and shell framework, the back with a large polished bloodstone panel within a rococo scroll and flower border, rose diamond set thumb piece.–
White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Rose diamond-set pierced hands. Gilt, full plate movement turned baluster pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, threearm balance with flat balance spring, pierced and engraved balance cock, silvered regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 42 mm
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Signed: R. Sanders London
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Bloodstone is a beautiful, mostly, dark green stone that features red or brown spots that form as a result of impurities in the iron oxide. These spots look like blood splatters, giving the stone its English name. The stone is also referred to as a heliotrope, and gets this name from the Greek words helio, meaning ‘sun’, and tropos, meaning ‘toward the sun’. It’s said that the colour is also reminiscent of heliotrope plants that face towards the sun. The solid green colour that encompasses the rest of the stone is brought in as a result of the amphibole or Chlorite minerals found in the green Chalcedony. Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica that’s composed of fine intergrowths of moganite and quartz, the minerals that make up most agate stones too. Because of its varied composition, the green in bloodstone is not always evenly distributed and may have blue or yellow streaks in addition to green. It has been a popular gemstone for at least two thousand years.
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Signed: R. Sanders London
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Bloodstone is a beautiful, mostly, dark green stone that features red or brown spots that form as a result of impurities in the iron oxide. These spots look like blood splatters, giving the stone its English name. The stone is also referred to as a heliotrope, and gets this name from the Greek words helio, meaning ‘sun’, and tropos, meaning ‘toward the sun’. It’s said that the colour is also reminiscent of heliotrope plants that face towards the sun. The solid green colour that encompasses the rest of the stone is brought in as a result of the amphibole or Chlorite minerals found in the green Chalcedony. Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica that’s composed of fine intergrowths of moganite and quartz, the minerals that make up most agate stones too. Because of its varied composition, the green in bloodstone is not always evenly distributed and may have blue or yellow streaks in addition to green. It has been a popular gemstone for at least two thousand years.
Signed: R. Sanders London
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