Exquisite English gold enamel verge pocket watch Circa 1815
- Kenmerk
- TD0111
- Diameter
- 45 mm
- Estimate
- € 16.000 - 26.000
- Price sold
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Gold/enamel pocket watch in triple case
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A gold enamel verge in a triple case, created for the Ottoman market, circa 1815.
An 18k gold/polychrome enamel pocket watch, full plate movement, chain/fusee, gold screw compensation balance, enamel dial with radial Ottoman numerals.
The cuvette is engraved with: Converted by T. Martin & Co., 151 Regent Street; the information refers to a gentle modernisation of the movement.
On this occasion, the watch was fitted with an English lever escapement which was state of the art at the time and a gold screw compensation
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A gold enamel verge in a triple case, created for the Ottoman market, circa 1815.
An 18k gold/polychrome enamel pocket watch, full plate movement, chain/fusee, gold screw compensation balance, enamel dial with radial Ottoman numerals.
The cuvette is engraved with: Converted by T. Martin & Co., 151 Regent Street; the information refers to a gentle modernisation of the movement.
On this occasion, the watch was fitted with an English lever escapement which was state of the art at the time and a gold screw compensation
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The three case of this watch are elaborately.
The outer case with curled outer rim, floral engraving, opaque pink-coloured enamel with translucent red champlevé flowers, curled inner rim with opaque blue and translucent red enamelling. The intermediate case curled outer rim, floral engraving, opaque blue enamel with translucent red champlevé flowers;
back with wavy octagonal enamel medallion with a polychrome painting of a bouquet of summer flowers against a blue background.
The rim of the inner case is decorated with translucent red flowers on a turquoise coloured ground. Back with a central octagonal medallion with miniature
painting in a translucent red enamel frame: a bouquet of summer flowers on an engine-turned translucent pink ground. Bezel with curling translucent red and white enamel border, neck with stripes in red and white.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Weight: 80 g.
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Diameter: 45 mm
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Weight: 80 g.
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Signed: Markwick Markham & Perigal London
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James Markwick and his son James were both fine watchmakers and worked in London. The elder was apprenticed on 25 June 1656 to Richard Taylor, and subsequently to Edward Gilpin.
He became free of the Clockmakers’ Company on 6 August 1666. Six apprentices were bound to him between 1674 and 1699.
In 1673 he succeeded the business of Samuel Betts behind the Royal Exchange. Although he held office in the Clockmakers’ Company, he was irregular in attendance, ceasing to tend to its affairs after 1700. He worked until at least 1706. His son, James Markwick Jr., became free of the Company in 1692 by patrimony.
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The younger James Markwick was an eminent maker, Master of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1720 and a very early user of jewelled bearings.
In later years he was in partnership with his son-in-law Robert Markham, who succeeded him using the trading name of Markwick Markham,
which became famous for watches destined for the Turkish market.
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Not only did this notoriety encourage the appearance of spuriously signed watches, but at the end of the century Markham, or his successor,
associated the names of other watchmakers with their own products intended for the East. The makers thus found associated are:
Francis Perigal, Peter Upjohn, H. Story, Borrell, John Johnson, Louis Recordon, Dupont. All were reputable watchmakers in their own right, selling other products under their own names.
Signed: Markwick Markham & Perigal London
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James Markwick and his son James were both fine watchmakers and worked in London. The elder was apprenticed on 25 June 1656 to Richard Taylor, and subsequently to Edward Gilpin.
He became free of the Clockmakers’ Company on 6 August 1666. Six apprentices were bound to him between 1674 and 1699.
In 1673 he succeeded the business of Samuel Betts behind the Royal Exchange. Although he held office in the Clockmakers’ Company, he was irregular in attendance, ceasing to tend to its affairs after 1700. He worked until at least 1706. His son, James Markwick Jr., became free of the Company in 1692 by patrimony.
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The younger James Markwick was an eminent maker, Master of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1720 and a very early user of jewelled bearings.
In later years he was in partnership with his son-in-law Robert Markham, who succeeded him using the trading name of Markwick Markham,
which became famous for watches destined for the Turkish market.
–
Not only did this notoriety encourage the appearance of spuriously signed watches, but at the end of the century Markham, or his successor,
associated the names of other watchmakers with their own products intended for the East. The makers thus found associated are:
Francis Perigal, Peter Upjohn, H. Story, Borrell, John Johnson, Louis Recordon, Dupont. All were reputable watchmakers in their own right, selling other products under their own names.
Signed: Markwick Markham & Perigal London
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