Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces...

Geneva, Nov 10, 2019

LOT 210

SINGLE HAND PENDANT WATCH

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

HKD 40,000 - 56,000 / USD 5,000 - 7,000

Sold: CHF 6,250

Very fine, rare and early, silver single hand pendant watch. Silver dial engraved with an urban scene in a silver decorated with a rayed design on a stippled ground.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Thomas Taylor, London

Year Circa 1660

Calibre  * Brand Brand Peiras, Blois Thomas Taylor, London Circa 1650 Circa 1660 14’’’, hinged, round gilt brass full plate with primitive “tulip” pillars, fusee with chaine, verge escapement, plain steel two-arm balance without spring, irregular oval foliate pierced and engraved cock secured by a pin. Striking on a bell, the striking train with gilt brass pierced and engraved fixed barrel and revolving arbour, gilt brass count wheel mounted on the back plate 1

Diameter 42

Signature Movement

Notes

Thomas Taylor was apprenticed in 1638 to Simon Hackett, was free of the Clockmaker Company 1646 and master in 1668.