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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 23

William Tomlinson, London, No. 1251, circa 1700. Fine and rare silver pair-cased alarm watch.

C. Outer: two-body, pierced and engraved for sound, four engraved masks on the side, inner: two-body, ?bassine? with deep back, pierced and engraved on the band, polished back. D. Silver, champlevé radial Roman numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic markers on polished cartouches, center rotating alarm ring, alarm setting aperture between 3 and 4 o?clock. Blued steel ?beetle and poker? hands. M. 40 mm, hinged, gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, single-footed cock with diamond endstone, alarm on a bell via two hammers. Signed on the movement. Diam. 57 mm.