Lot 406

William Travers, London, Movement No. 3475, 64 mm, 221 g, circa 1800
A representative English pocket watch with quarter hour/hour self strike - for the Chinese market
Case: outer case - firegilt, engraved, ornamented, pierced, studded with red and white gem stones, case maker's punch mark "TG"; inner case - firegilt, richly florally engraved and pierced with chinese landscape scenery, slide for silence. Dial: enamel, radial Roman hours and Arabic minutes, centre seconds, gold Poker & Beetle hands. Movm.: brass full plate movement, keywind, lavishly florally engraved, numbered, signed, protective cap, balance stop device, 1 hammer, chain/fusee, moulded pillars, cylinder escapement, three-arm steel balance, fine florally engraved, pierced balance cock with grotesque face, applied silver regulator scale, chatoned diamond endstone on balance.

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