George Taylor

A fine, single-handed Liverpool double-cased verge pocket watch with mock pendulum

Sold

estimated

1.000—2.500 €

Price realized

2.800 €

Our current catalogue

specific features

Case

Outer case - silver, "repoussé" decoration. Inner case - silver, polished.

Dial

Silver champlevé.

Movement

Full plate movement, chain/fusee, ring balance with "mock pendulum".

Diam.54 mm

Circa1700

Ctry.England

Wt.134 g

The beautiful repoussé outer case is decorated with vases of flowers, fantasy birds, foliage and two profile views of a woman and a man.

English watchmaker George Taylor was born on 1 May 1703. He was the son of watchmaker James Taylor and Ann Barker and worked as a watchmaker in Liverpool, where he had taken over his father's business.