English silver mock pendulum sun and moon dial Circa 1700
- Kenmerk
- PA0031
- Diameter
- 57 mm
- Estimate
- € 8.000 - 12.000
- Price sold
- € 10.500
Silver mock pendulum sun and moon verge watch
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An English silver pair cased mock pendulum verge watch with sun and moon champlevé dial, circa 1700, full plate fire gilt movement with tulip pillars, fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel set-up between the plates, mock pendulum cock with decoratively pierced and engraved table, open semi-circular section to reveal the bob on one arm of the steel balance, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the regulator square.
Signed silver champlevé dial with Arabic numerals for the minutes, blue steel poker hand, the hours indicated by a blue steel disc which rotates once every 24 hours, viewed through a semi-circular aperture and has engraved on one half the gilt sun and on the other the moon, at the edge of the semi-circle the hours are marked from six through twelve and back to six in Roman numerals, as the sun disappears at the right of the aperture the moon appears at the left.
Plain silver inner case, silver pendant and ring bow, maker’s mark BL, plain silver outer case.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Luke Bird London
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Luke Bird, apprenticed 1695, free of the Clockmakers Company 1683 – 1705. The case maker is probably the Britannia mark for Richard Blundell.
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An English silver pair cased mock pendulum verge watch with sun and moon champlevé dial, circa 1700, full plate fire gilt movement with tulip pillars, fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel set-up between the plates, mock pendulum cock with decoratively pierced and engraved table, open semi-circular section to reveal the bob on one arm of the steel balance, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the regulator square.
Signed silver champlevé dial with Arabic numerals for the minutes, blue steel poker hand, the hours indicated by a blue steel disc which rotates once every 24 hours, viewed through a semi-circular aperture and has engraved on one half the gilt sun and on the other the moon, at the edge of the semi-circle the hours are marked from six through twelve and back to six in Roman numerals, as the sun disappears at the right of the aperture the moon appears at the left.
Plain silver inner case, silver pendant and ring bow, maker’s mark BL, plain silver outer case.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Signed: Luke Bird London
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Luke Bird, apprenticed 1695, free of the Clockmakers Company 1683 – 1705. The case maker is probably the Britannia mark for Richard Blundell.
Signed: Luke Bird London
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