Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 228

JOHN GIBSON POCKET WATCH GOLD John Gibson, London, No. 16. Made circa 1800, the case with London hallmarks for 1810-11. Fine and rare, 18K gold, pocket watch

Three-body, "consular", polished, fixed cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial with Arabic four-second numerals. Yellow gold pear hands. 41 mm., hinged, gilt brass, full plate, cylindrical pillars, 8 jewels, three in screwed chatons, fusee with chain, Harrison's maintaining power, cut bimetallic compensation balance with external temperature and meantime adjustment screws, free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring with terminal curves, diamond endstone, foliate engraved clock.