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Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 2

Jessop, Southampton Street, Strand, London, No. 2503, hallmarked 1787-88. Fine and unusual 18K gold pair-cased, center-seconds quarter-repeating pocket watch with stop feature.

CHF 8,000 - 10,000

EUR 5,000 - 6,500 / USD 6,500 - 8,000

Sold: CHF 4,600

C. Outer: two-body, polished. Inner: two-body, ?bassine?, band engraved and pierced for sound, center engraved with rosette. D. Eccentric, set at the top, white enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers. Gold ?beetle and poker? hands. M. 43 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with Harrison's maintaining power and chain, cylinder escapement, steel balance with flat balance spring, diamond endstone, single-footed cock, balance and escape wheel jeweled, stop lever at 8 o'clock, gilt brass dust cap, repeating on bell by depressing the pendant.Dial, back plate and dust cap signed.Diam. 64 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

A high quality jeweled watch made during a period when jeweling was reserved for only the best pieces. Josiah Jessop worked in London, where he is recorded circa 1780-1794, at 38 Southampton St., Covent Garden. A center-seconds watch made by him was in the Ilbert collection, now in the British Museum; a gold and enamel watch by him was in the Sternberger collection ; another is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.