Thematic Auction in Geneva:The Evolut...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Nov 16, 2002

LOT 4

Jeremie Gregory, Royal Exchange (London), circa 1665.Fine silver pair-cased pre balance spring, single hand watch.

CHF 16,000 - 20,000

EUR 11,000 - 13,500

Sold: CHF 18,400

C. Outer: double-body, shagreen-covered. Inner: double-body, "bassine", polished, with split bezel and loose-ring pendant. D. Silver with radial Roman numerals, the center engraved with a scene depicting a shepherd and his sheep in the foreground, a village in the back. Blued steel arrow single hand. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with early Egyptian pillars, fusee with gut-line, short train, verge escapement, circular steel foliot, worm-and-wheel set-up with pierced blued steel brackets and slver regulator disc, silver florally pierced and engraved cock secured by a screw.Signed on the back plate.Diam. 50 mm.


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Grading System
Case: 37 / 3
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Jeremie Gregory (d. 1685)Worked in London, Cornhill. He was a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1652, and master in 1665. A maker of repute, a traveling clock by him is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a silver alarm watch in the Guildhall Museum, and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.