English 22K gold and bloodstone pocket watch Circa 1760
- Kenmerk
- TA1168
- Diameter
- 40 mm
- Estimate
- € 3.500 - 6.000
- Price sold
- € 1.650
Gold open faced verge watch
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A very fine small English 22K gold and bloodstone open faced verge pocket watch, circa 1760. The back is carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in 22K gold, the bezel with gold mounted bloodstone and six applied plain gold cartouches. White enamel dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o’clock. Gold Louis XV hands. Hinged, frosted gilt full plate movement with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three arm brass balance with flat balance spring, single footed foliate pierced and engraved cock, silver regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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A very fine small English 22K gold and bloodstone open faced verge pocket watch, circa 1760. The back is carved from a single piece of bloodstone mounted in 22K gold, the bezel with gold mounted bloodstone and six applied plain gold cartouches. White enamel dial, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen minute Arabic numerals, winding aperture at 4 o’clock. Gold Louis XV hands. Hinged, frosted gilt full plate movement with square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, three arm brass balance with flat balance spring, single footed foliate pierced and engraved cock, silver regulation dial.
Movement signed.
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Diameter: 40 mm
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Signed: Charles Cabrier 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: Charles Cabrier 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: Charles Cabrier London
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