Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 303

M.J. Tobias & Co., Lord Street, Liverpool, No. 13112. Fine 18K gold pocket watch with Massey lever escapement with unusual bimetallic compensation balance.

C. Four-body, "bassine", back with concentric engine-turning. Gilt brass sprung dust-cap. D. Gold, engine-turned with applied polished gold radial Roman numerals, outer dot minute indexes, applied vari-colored gold flower and foliate border and center. Gold lozenge hands. M. 36 mm., frosted gilt, half-plate, cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, Massey lateral lever escapement, three-arm brass balance with internal blued steel rim for temperature compensation, blued steel flat balance spring with gilt brass balance cock with engraved decoration, diamond endstone, index regulator. Movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Property of Various Owners