Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 12, 1997
LOT 544
J. Windmills, London, No. 514, circa 1710. Fine silver pair cased watch.
CHF 3,000 - 4,000
C. Outer double body polished, marked "1.W.". Inner double body bassine, polished, marked " W.I. " (William Jack). D. Silver champleve with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Blued steel "poker and tulip" hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with tulip pillars, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring and gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with inhabited foliage. Signed on the dial and back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 53 nun.
Notes
Thewalch is numbe red on the front plate beneath the dial.
lv the Bute this watch was made silver cases were rarely hallmarked
and Master marks were not yet standardised.
Williams Jack was the pupil of Daniel Delander, the famous case
maker of the second half of the 17th Century.