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An enamel gilt-metal pocket…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
22-Oct-2024
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Description:
An enamel gilt-metal pocket watch, maker Bayley and Upjohn English Circa 1800 5 cm diameter, 6 cm high. An enamel gilt-metal pocket watch, maker Bayley and Upjohn. English Circa 1800. Gents open-faced enamel watch. White enamel dial, black Arabic numerals and delicate gold. hands. Winding through the dial. Bezel set with seed pearls. Mercurial gilt metal case, sky-blue vitreous enamel panel on back of watch with central. interlaced gold band and gold, blue and white border to outer edge. Fusee drive with lever escapement. Finely pierced and engraved balance cock with mask, and. symmetrical design featuring fire-breathing dragons. Ruby endstone. Signed 'Bayley &. Upjohn, London, 1041' on the backplate. Key operated silver adjustment dial on backplate. Plain cylindrical pillars. Reference: Bayley and Upjohn are listed in Baillie as being in Red Lion Street, London between 1790 and 1804. Figure 254 in Cescinsky and Webster's 'English Domestic Clocks' shows a regulator. long case clock by Bayley and Upjohn fitted with the Harrison type of grid-iron pendulum, dated at about 1800. Provenance: Purchased by Edwin from E. I. Bright of Brisbane in 1971. Repaired by Cammerer Cuss and Co. in June 1981. Dimensions: 5 cm diameter, 6 cm high
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Category:
Unclassified