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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 398

Timothy Williamson, London, No. 3148, circa 1785.Fine, fire-gilded, large, pair-cased stop-watch, made for the Chinese market, with painted enamel miniature.

C. Outer: Two-body, back with enameled miniature depicting a girl playing with a sheep, bezels engraved with floral decoration, the edge with alternating half-pearls and green stones. Inner: two-body, "bassine", polished.D. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minutes, subsidiary seconds, blued-steel 'poker and beetle' hands. M. Fire-gilded, full-plate, English gilded cock pierced and engraved with foliage, verge escapement, plain steel balance, flat balance spring, fusee and chain, small hack lever at the edge, gilded dust-cap.Signed on the movement and dust-cap.Diam. 81 mm.