A9208
Large Silver Calendar Verge Pocket Watch
£1,200.00
Signed J Alexander London
Hallmarked London 1819
Hallmarked London 1819
A large early 19th Century English verge with seconds and calendar in silver pair cases.
Diameter 63 mm
Out of stock
Description
A large early 19th Century English verge with seconds and calendar in silver pair cases. Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement. Engraved mask cock with diamond endstone, plain flat three arm polished steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring, gilt Bosley regulator. White enamel dial with subsidiaries for calendar and seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel seconds hand, gilt hands. Matching silver pair cases, silver oval pendant and bow.
Unusually the calendar is set by hand. The watch has been made without any automatic mechanism and it would not be possible to fit one unless a thicker dial plate was used.
