Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 369

"NAVAL ENGAGEMENT? Markwick Markham, Perigal, London, circa 1815, made for the Islamic market. Very fine gold and painted on enamel triple-cased quarter-striking clockwatch.

C. Outer: two-body with scalloped edges, glazed back, pierced bezels in red and pale green champleve enamelwith rosebud decoration. Middle: two-body with scalloped edges, back with painted scene of galleons at war,translucent red border, pierced bezels with decoration matching the outer case. Inner: two-body, pierced foliateband decorated with white champlevé enamel intersected with painted enamel fl owerhead roundels and atrophy, back painted with a fl oral spray on a translucent red guilloché ground, pale green, gold and white enamel bezel. D. White enamel with Islamic hour numerals, outer minute divisions with fi ve-minute Islamic markers. Gold ?beetle and poker? hands. M. 33 mm., gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, vergeescapement, pierced and engraved gilt brass cock, striking with two hammers on a bell. Gilt brass dust cap. Signed on the dial and backplate. Diam. 55 mm.