Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 17, 1992

LOT 469

Recordon, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London., 1809. Very fine gold and enamel pair-cased quarterstriking clock-watch, with special escapement, and made for the Turkish Market.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

Sold: CHF 36,800

C. Outer. Two-body, with pie-crust edge, decorated with a wavy pattern in engraved gold on a pale blue ground, within red enamel borders. Inner Three-body, the band with a pattern of ribbon tied roundels enamelled in scarlet translucent and white enamel on a pale blue ground;back panel of red enamel over a sunburst pattern of engine-turning. Pendant enamelled en suite. D. Engine-turned gold, engraved with Turkish chapters on a matted ground. Blued-steel 'lozenge' hands. M. GiIt full-plate with going barrels, ruby cylinder escapement, with plain three-arm brass balance, flat balance spring with bimetallic compensation curb on the regulator. Engraved balance cock with diamond end-stone. Quarter-striking, with repeating set-off in the pendant, on two gongs. GiIt-metal dust-cap. Signed on the dial, dust-cap and movement. In very good condition. Diam: 67 mm.


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Notes

Louis Recordon succeeded to the business of Josiah Emery. who died in 1797. Recordon himself retired in 1796, but the firm continued in his name. Emery was one of the few English makers using the ruby cylinder escapement, and clearly the technique passed on to Recordon.