Archive of Sold Items

A mid 19^th Century Swiss captain's independent seconds lever in a gold open face case.  Keywind gilt bar movement with two suspended going barrels.  Plain cock with polished steel parachute suspension and blue steel regulator with temperature compensation curb.  Uncut bimetallic balance with spiral hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement.  Gold engraved dial, independent centre seconds, subsidiaries for continuous seconds, and two chapters for time.  The chapter of Roman numerals running constantly and the one of Arabic numerals running only when the independent seconds train is in use, blue steel hands.  Substantial purpose made plain 18 carat open face case with clip on back and bezel.

A late 20^th Century Swiss keyless independent centre seconds lever in a gold open face case.  Keyless nickelled bar movement with two going barrels, twin visible steel winding wheels.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement, escape and lever pivots with endstones.  White enamel dial with independent centre seconds, continuous subsidiary seconds, Roman and Arabic numerals.  Blue steel seconds hands, gilt hands.  Plain 18 carat open face case, engraved monogram on the back cover, the independent seconds operated by a button in the pendant.  Gold cuvette and glazed cover to the movement.

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.

A late 19^th Century Swiss lever by Patek Philippe fitted in a deck watch case.  High quality keyless bar movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator adjusted by a snail cam, steel pointer on the plate.  Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement, the lever with counterbalance extension arms extending beyond the pallets.  Escape and lever pivots with endstones in polished steel settings.  Snailed steel wolf's teeth winding work.  Signed white enamel dial marked “Chronometro Gondolo”, subsidiary seconds, Roman and Arabic numerals, blue steel seconds hand, gilt hands.  Brass purpose made case for the movement with clip on back and glazed bezel, gold crown.  Lacquered brass Dennison deck watch bowl with screw bezel.

A late 19^th Century Swiss lever by Vacheron and Constantin in a gold full hunter case.  Keyless nickelled bar movement with going barrel, snailed steel wolf's teeth winding work.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator.  Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement, the lever with counterbalance extension arms extending beyond the pallets.  Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, black Roman and red Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Engine turned 14 carat full hunter  case with vacant shield shaped cartouche on the front cover.  Ribbed middle, plain gold cuvette.

A late 19^th Century Swiss cylinder with digital dial in a silver open face case.  Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel.   Plain cock with polished steel regulator.  Plain gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel. White enamel dial with gilt decoration either side of the central aperture revealing the digital indication of minutes, a circular aperture above showing the hours and below these a small subsidiary seconds dial.  The minutes change instantaneously as the seconds hand passes 60.  Engine turned silver open face case with vacant shield shaped cartouche on the back cover, makers mark “GT” in an oval.

An unusually small late 19^th Century Swiss cylinder with digital dial in a silver open face case.  Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel.   Plain cock with polished steel regulator.  Plain gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel. White enamel dial signed “Patent” within an engraved silver hexagonal mask.  Polychrome floral decoration either side of the central aperture revealing the digital indication of minutes, a circular aperture above showing the hours.  The minutes change instantaneously. Small chased and engraved silver open face case with vacant shield shaped cartouche on the back cover.

A fine early 20^th Century English lever in a large and substantial gold full hunter case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  English table roller lever escapement.  Signed white enamel dial with centre seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel seconds hand, gilt hands.  Very substantial plain 18 carat full hunter case, small gold slide in the band to stop the balance, maker's mark “BH” in a rectangle and number corresponding to that on the movement, gross weight 245 grams.  In a velvet lined rosewood presentation case, vacant shield shaped mother of pearl cartouche in the lid.

A fine early 20^th Century English minute recording chronograph in a gold full hunter case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel under a raised section in the plate.  Flyback centre seconds chronograph work under the dial.  Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator, diamond endstone.  Compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Screwed in jewelling, English table roller lever escapement escape and lever pivots with endstones.  Signed white enamel dial with centre seconds flyback chronograph, subsidiaries for 60 minute record and continuous seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Substantial plain 18 carat full hunter case, gold button in the band for the chronograph which is locked when the front cover is closed.  Maker's mark “FT” in an oval.

An early 20^th Century American lever in a gold open face case.  Nickelled split three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel micrometer regulator, compensation balance with blue steel overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement.  Signed silvered dial with subsidiary seconds, Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Plain 14 carat open face case, the moment hinging out of the body, maker's mark “E.N.W. Co.”.

A rare early 20^th Century Swiss lever watch and compass in a silver open face case.  Gilt three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, uncut bimetallic balance with overcoil hairspring.  Club foot lever escapement.  Very unusual white enamel dial combining both indications for the watch and the compass.  Luminous Arabic numerals for the hours 1 – 12 and small red numerals for 13 – 24.  At the centre a star for the compass and at the edge the quarter cardinal compass points.  The bezel has faded markings in degrees, blue steel hands.  Faded engine turned silver open face case.

A small mid 18^th Century English verge in a gold and enamel mounted agate case.  Small full plate fire gilt fusee movement with square baluster pillars.  Pierced and engraved silver cock, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the gilt regulator disc.  Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  White enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, decorative stone set hands.  Small open face case, the agate back set in a gold and enamel bezel with plain hinged glazed front bezel.

An 18^th Century English verge in gilt metal and tortoiseshell pair cases.  Full plate fire gilt movement with fusee and chain.  Pierced and engraved cock, silver regulator disc.  Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  White enamel dial with Roman numerals, gold beetle and poker hands.  Gilt metal pair cases, the outer covered in blond tortoiseshell decorated with gilt pique pins.

An early 19^th Century English verge with an unusual form of windmill automaton in silver pair cases.  Full plate fusee movement with round pillars.  Pierced and engraved round cock, gilt  regulator on top plate below the plain three arm steel balance.  Rare polychrome enamel dial depicting a church on the left indicating the time on a clock in the tower, Roman numerals, gilt hands.  On the right a windmill, the engraved gold sails rotating rapidly counter-clockwise as they are mounted on a pinion which is driven be an extra set of teeth on the edge of the contrate wheel.  Plain silver pair cases, wound and set from the back, the aperture for the setting indicated by an engraved pair of hands.  Silver pendant and bow, maker's mark “CS” in a rectangle.

A 19^th Century English verge with Masonic dial in silver pair cases.  Full plate fusee movement with round pillars.  Pierced and engraved round cock bearing a swan in a shield shaped cartouche, the table repaired with a brass plate.  Gilt Bosley regulator on top plate. Plain three arm steel balance.  White enamel dial, the central polychrome enamel scene with checkerboard floor, all seeing eye, beehive and ark.  The sun, moon and some of the tools picked out in gilt.  Arabic numerals, pierced gold hands.   Matching silver pair cases, silver oval pendant and bow, maker's mark “SP”.

A fine early 19^th Century English cylinder in a decorative gold open face case.  Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement, engraved cock with garnet endstone, silver regulator disc.  Plain three arm polished steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, large escape wheel, pivots with endstones.  Fine engine turned gold dial, applied gold Arabic numerals on a matted ground, gold serpentine hands.  Substantial engine turned 18 carat open face case with chased and engraved bezels pendant and bow.  Reeded middle, wound through the gold cuvette, maker's mark “LC”.  Chased and engraved gold key.  In red morocco presentation box.

A small early 19^th Century Swiss verge in a pearl set gold and enamel case and chatelaine.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Wound through the engine turned silver dial, Roman numerals, gilt hands.  Small gold open face case, the bezels set with split pearls.  Plain pale blue enamel back, gilt decorative band.  Matching gold chatelaine, two fine pearl set chains  and a central link set with two translucent pale blue circles.  Matching key and uncut seal, gilt metal clip.

An early 19^th Century Swiss verge in an unusual decorative three colour gold case.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Wound through the engine turned gold dial with a border of two colour gold decoration,  Roman numerals, gilt hands.  Unusual scollop form gold open face case, applied three colour gold decoration.  Sprung front bezel opened by depressing a button in the gold pendant.

An early 19^th Century Swiss verge in a three colour gold ruby set open face case.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock, steel coqueret with garnet endstone, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Gold dial with applied two colour gold decoration around the edge.  White enamel minute ring and cartouches with Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Gold open face case decorated with applied two colour decoration on a matted ground and set with rubies.  Sprung front bezel opened by depressing a button in the gold pendant.

An early 19^th Century Swiss verge in a decorative gold open face case set with turquoise and rubies.  Full plate gilt fusee movement.  Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator.  Wound through the engine turned gold dial, Roman numerals, gold hands.  Gold open face case profusely ornamented with turquoise and rubies and applied three colour gold decoration.  Sprung front bezel opened by depressing a button in the gold pendant.

A 19^th Century Swiss cylinder in an unusual gold oval pendant case.  Keywind gilt bar movement with suspended going barrel.  Plain cock with polished steel regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel.  Small white enamel dial with Roman numerals, blue steel hands.  Engraved gold oval pendant with applied decorative wire work.  Raised engraved circular section for the watch, the small central lid set with a pearl is sprung open by pressing  button at the edge.  Gold circular hinged back with slide to reveal the apertures to wind and set the watch.