Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992
LOT 214
Martin, Bristol, English, circa 1710 Fine silver pair-cased watch, by an interesting provincial maker.
CHF 3,400 - 3,800
C. Outer. Two-body, plain, polished. Inner. Two-body, plain, polished with split bezel. D. Silver champleve, with Roman hour and Arabic five minute numerals, repousse central cartouche. Blued-steel beetle-and -poker hands. M. GiIt-brass, full-plate with scroll pierced Egyptian pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement with plain three-arm steel balance and flat balance spring. Large 'eared' balance cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Signed on the dial and movement. In good condition. Diam. 58 mm.
Notes
The maker in question is almost certainly William Martin
of Bristol, recorded as working from 1703-1739.