Archive of Sold Items

A very large late 19^th Century Swiss lever chronograph in a nickle open face case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement marked “The Ascot – Patent 20th June 1887”. Going barrel, grained steel chronograph work above the plate. Plain cock with gilt regulator, uncut bimetallic balance with overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement.  Large signed white enamel dial with flyback centre seconds chronograph, 30 minute recording subsidiary.  Small chapter of Roman numerals in the centre.  Outside this four concentric circles of red Arabic numerals marked from 12 to 60 and at the edge the black markings for the centre seconds chronograph, blue steel hands. Substantial large open face nickle case.

A late 19^th Century Swiss lever with moonphase calendar in a glass ball clock.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, uncut bimetallic balance with spiral hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement.  Large white enamel dial with subsidiaries for seconds combined with moonphase, day, date and month.  Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Substantial plain silver case with flat glass to the front, maker's mark “RF&Co”.  The back a  hemisphere of glass with a flat to allow the clock to stand. Thumb sets for the time and calendar in the band.

A late 19^th Century German lever with double sided calendar in a silver case.  Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator.  Compensation balance with overcoil hairspring, club foot lever escapement.  Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds and Roman numerals, blue steel hands. The phase of the moon is indicated through an aperture in the centre of the dial on a blue steel and gold disc. Further calendar indications are on the other side of the watch under a sprung hunter cover.  The days of the week and date shown by a single blue steel hand and the month in a rectangular aperture.  The number of the days in each month are also given and the outer silvered ring indicating the day can be rotated by a thumb wheel to align the correct day with the date.  The date is changed automatically by a pawl on the movement.   Plain double sided silver case  the calendar side under a  glass and sprung silver back with applied gold decoration.