B. Sidey, London, No. 4239, circa 1770. Fine small gold and diamond-set pair cased quarter-repeating verge watch. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 21st October 1995

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

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B. Sidey, London, No. 4239, circa 1770. Fine small gold and diamond-set pair cased quarter-repeating verge watch.

CHF 30,000 - 35,000

C. Outer, double body 22 ct. gold, pierced and engraved with scrollwork and repoussé floral designs enclosing a grey agate panel with applied rose-diamond floral motif, the bezel with similar panels of agate. haler, double body bassine with pierced and engraved decoration of scrolls and masks. Gilt-metal dust cap. D. White enamel with Roman and Arabic numerals. Blued-steel "beetle and poker" bands. M. Gilt-brass full plate with turned pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain three-arm brass balance, flat spring and regulator. Quarter-repeating on bell. Signed on the movement. In very good condition. Diam: 40 mm.

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Of the two makers by this name, father and son, who worked in 18th century London, the elder was apprenticed on 2 June 1701 to Edward Hill and became free of the Clockmakers' Company 7 May 1711. The younger was apprenticed to his father on 4 October 1731 and became free on 9 October 1738. Junior Warden in 1758, he was Master of the Company in 1761 and took the livery when the Company changed status in 1766. Elected Master for a second time in 1789, he was particularly active in everything that concerned the trade. Living and working in Moorfields like his father, he left £300 for the relief of poor members of the Company in his will proved in 1795.