Lot 280

Jeremie Gregory at the Royal Exchange, London, 49 mm, 88 g, circa 1660
An early single-handed pair-cased verge pocket watch
Case: outer case - silver/brass, shagreen, stud decoration. Inner case - silver. Dial: silver, finely engraved scene of a seated shepherd. Movm.: full plate movement, gut/fusee, ratchet wheel set up with blued steel spring, two-arm iron balance without balance spring.
Jeremie Gregory (d. 1686) worked in London, Cornhill/Royal Exchange. He was a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1652, and master in 1665. A maker of repute, a traveling clock by him is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a silver alarm watch in the Guildhall Museum, and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.