The Sandberg Watch Collection

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Mar 31, 2001

LOT 226

William Howes, London, No. 1124, circa 1760.Very fine 20 ct. gold, diamond-set, bloodstone-cased watch.

C. Two-body, the back carved from a single piece of bloodstone, the bezel is also made of a single piece of bloodstone mounted on a gold shell, diamond-set pushpiece. D. White enamel, radial Roman chapters, outer minute dot divisions. Gold 'Louis XV' hands. M. 30 mm o, gilt brass full plate, square baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance, blued-steel balance spring, single-footed gilt cock pierced and engraved with asymmetrical scrolling foliage and exoic bird at the base, diamond endstone, wheel and ratchet set-up, rack and pinion regulator with silver plate.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 41 mm. Published in the Sandberg book, pages 148-149.