The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 137

Thomas Chamberlaine de Chelmesforde, circa 1660.Very fine silver pre-balance spring, single-hand watch with date indication.

C. Two-body, 'bassine', with curved band, polished, with a shutter for the winding aperture, small swivel pendant, loose ring. D. Silver, champlevé, Roman chapters with half-hour markers, inner quarter-hour divisions, outer 31-day calendar ring with a pointer mounted on a gilded ring between the chapter and the calendar rings, the centre with applied gilded pierced and florally engraved medallion. Blued-steel 'arrow' hand. M. 41 mm o, hinged, gilded full plate, Egyptian pillars, fusee and gut-lie, verge escapement, two-arm steel balance without a spring, elongated gilded cock symmetrically pierced and engraved with flowers, short four-wheel train with five-leaf pinions, worm and wheel set-up with silver plate and Arabic numerals from 1 to 8 filled with red wax.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 49 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, page 90-91.