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A rare silver pair-cased pocket…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
22-Oct-2024
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Description:
A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Richard Camden English Circa 1720 5 cm diameter, 6 cm high, 6 cm case diameter. A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Richard Camden. English Circa 1720. silver pair-cased watch, inner case plain and bears the case-maker's mark "HG", possibly for. Henry Greene. Outer case plain and similarly marked. Short silver pendant and loose ring bow. Silver champleve dial with black enamel Roman hour numerals and black enamel Arabic. minute numerals. Signed "Camden" in a cartouche above the centre of the dial and "London" in a cartouche below. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. The movement has a verge escapement with fusee and chain drive. It has very fine pillars. with scroll work above and applied silver mounts below with a gargoyle face and a scroll on each side. The fusee stop is unusual and appears to be in the form of joined letters surmounted by a crown, all upside down. Finely pierced and engraved silver, winged balance cock, the table centred with a rosette, leafy scrollwork surrounded by an engraved border. The foot of the cock, also silver, is pierced and engraved with leafy scrolls. A gilded serpent points to the numbers on the regulator dial which is also silver. Signed on the back plate Ric Camden, London". Reference: Britten lists Richard Camden as being apprenticed to his father William Camden in 1709 and immediately after that lists "splendid long case clock, excellent timekeeper; repeating watch, pierced cases; watch, handsome chased silver dial, silver balance cock, very fine movement. silver case, reputed belonged Charles XII of Sweden". Provenance: Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould in December 1972 for 400 pounds. Restored by Camerer Cuss & Co London 1/12/1975 for 46 pounds. Dimensions: 5 cm diameter, 6 cm high, 6 cm case diameter
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Category:
Horology (Clocks & watches): Watches - Pocket & Fob