Rare English gold pair cased quarter repeater Circa 1800

Kenmerk: SB0339
Diameter: 53 mm

Estimate: € 12.000 - 22.000
Price sold: € 15.600

Gold and enamel repeating cylinder watch by Ellicott
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A rare English gold and enamel pair cased quarter repeating pocket watch, Circa 1800. Gilt full plate cylinder movement, pierced and engraved balance cock, fusée and chain, diamond endstone in screwed chaton, silver regulator disc, repeating mechanism with two hammers striking on a bell, dust protecting cap, signed. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals and outer minute graduation. Pierced and engraved inner gold case, scrolls to the band, back decorated with foliage pattern, the outer case with an enamel en grisaille depicting Leda and the Swan, framed by a serpent in green translucent enamel, bezels with dark blue enamel intertwined by white enamel pattern, framed piercing to the band. Enamel scene painted after François Boucher, attributed to a follower of George Michael Moser, inner case with Peter Mounier’s master mark, hallmark London 1800.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Signed: Ellicott London
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The case of this watch was most probably decorated by a follower of George Michael Moser. Quality, style and composition of painting, after François Boucher, surrounded by a serpent as a decorative device, which is typical of Moser’s early work, where the vast majority of his cases follow the same decorative pattern.

Signed: Ellicott London