English gold duplex watch for the Chinese market Circa 1820
- Kenmerk
- TA1125
- Diameter
- 59 mm
- Estimate
- € 40.000 - 80.000
- Price sold
- € 45.900
Gold and enamel open faced pocket watch
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A very fine English 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch with duplex escapement, circa 1820. Titus and Berenice by Ilbery London, made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Thhe spring-loaded back cover very finely painted with a scene depicting Titus and Berenice in a classical wooded landscape and a dark green guilloché enamel background, the bezels and pendant with green, white, blue and black champlevé enamel geometrical patterns.
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A very fine English 18K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch with duplex escapement, circa 1820. Titus and Berenice by Ilbery London, made for the Chinese market, circa 1820. Thhe spring-loaded back cover very finely painted with a scene depicting Titus and Berenice in a classical wooded landscape and a dark green guilloché enamel background, the bezels and pendant with green, white, blue and black champlevé enamel geometrical patterns.
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Hinged gilt metal cuvette mounted to the movement ring. White enamel dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold heart hands. Gilt brass movement, fully engraved, Chinese caliber, free-standing barrel, duplex escapement, plain five-arm flat-rim steel balance, flat blued steel balance spring, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed.
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Diameter: 59 mm
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Diameter: 59 mm
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Signed: Ilbery London
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Titus and Berenice Titus, the elder son of emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39. From AD 61 to 63 he served in Germany and Britain as military tribune. He then returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, the daughter of a former commander of the Praetorian guard. A year later Arrecina died and Titus married Marcia Furnilla. She was of a distinguished family which had connections to opponents of Nero. After the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, Titus thought it best not to be connected in any way with any potential plotters and hence divorced Marcia in AD 65. The same year Titus was appointed quaestor, and became commander one of his father’s three legions in Judea in AD 67 XV Legion ‘Apollinaris. A serious threat to Titus’ succession was his affair with the Jewish princess Berenice, ten years his senior, beautiful and with powerful connections in Rome. She was the daughter or sister of the Jewish king, Herod Agrippa II, and Titus called her to Rome in AD 75. As he had divorced his second wife Marcia Furnilla in AD 65, Titus was free to remarry. And for a while Berenice lived openly with Titus in the palace. But the pressure of public opinion, mixed with anti-Semitism and xenophobia, forced them apart. There was even talk of her being a new Cleopatra. Rome was not prepared to tolerate an eastern woman close to power and so Berenice had to return home. The scene depicted on the present watch shows Berenice parting from Titus.
Signed: Ilbery London
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Titus and Berenice Titus, the elder son of emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39. From AD 61 to 63 he served in Germany and Britain as military tribune. He then returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, the daughter of a former commander of the Praetorian guard. A year later Arrecina died and Titus married Marcia Furnilla. She was of a distinguished family which had connections to opponents of Nero. After the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, Titus thought it best not to be connected in any way with any potential plotters and hence divorced Marcia in AD 65. The same year Titus was appointed quaestor, and became commander one of his father’s three legions in Judea in AD 67 XV Legion ‘Apollinaris. A serious threat to Titus’ succession was his affair with the Jewish princess Berenice, ten years his senior, beautiful and with powerful connections in Rome. She was the daughter or sister of the Jewish king, Herod Agrippa II, and Titus called her to Rome in AD 75. As he had divorced his second wife Marcia Furnilla in AD 65, Titus was free to remarry. And for a while Berenice lived openly with Titus in the palace. But the pressure of public opinion, mixed with anti-Semitism and xenophobia, forced them apart. There was even talk of her being a new Cleopatra. Rome was not prepared to tolerate an eastern woman close to power and so Berenice had to return home. The scene depicted on the present watch shows Berenice parting from Titus.
Signed: Ilbery London
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