Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 327

?The Flowers? Richard Baskerville, London, No. 2016. Made circa 1750. Very fine, 20K gold and painted on enamel pocket watch.

HKD 50,000 - 65,000

USD 6,500 - 8,500 / EUR 5,500 - 7,000

Sold: HKD 56,640

C. Two-body, Louis XV, the back finely decorated with painted on enamel and champlevé flowers and foliage on a hatched chased ground, the bezel decorated en suite. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, winding aperture between 3 and 4 o'clock. Gold ?Louis? hands. M. 35 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with turned pillars, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement, three-arm steel balance with flat balance spring, pierced and chased balance cock with diamond endstone, silvered regulation dial. Movement signed. Diam. 45 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-54

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Richard Baskerville Apprenticed in 1741 and free of the Clockmakers Company 1749 ? 1772. A clock by him is in Bruges Cathedral. The case, dial and hands of the present watch were made in France around 1750. Very shortly after it was made, the watch must have been brought to England, where it was fitted with a movement by Richard Baskerville. Continental watches having fine cases were often fitted with movements by English makers. Usually these English movements, as in the present watch, have cylinder escapements, which were seen as an improvement on the standard verge movement.