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Marca :
Augustus
Modello :
Augustus autres horlogerie
Categoria :
Montre de poche
Periodo :
XVII secolo
ID Orologio :
1451
Movimento :
Altro
Forma della cassa :
Rotonda
Colore del quadrante :
Smalto
Descrizione :
Lot Description.William Allam. A fine 18K gold and enamel quarter repeating verge watch, enamel by Augustin Toussaint.Signed Wm. Allam, London, No. 1451, circa 1780.With gilt-finished verge movement, chain fusée, finely engraved and pierced foliage and scroll decorated balance cock and foot, turned pillars, quarter repeating on two polished steel hammers onto the case and onto the gilt metal dust cap, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute divisions, gold beetle and poker hands, in circular case with finely chased and white and blue champlevé enamel scroll decorated bezel and rim, the similarly decorated green, white and blue champlevé enamel back centred by an oval painted en grisaille enamel scene signed AT for Augustus Toussaint, diamond-set thumbpiece, repeating through the pendant, movement signed and numbered, dust cap signed.46 mm. diam..Special Notice.This lot is offered without reserve..Literature.The present watch with enamel by Augustin Toussaint is mentioned in The Art of the Gold Chaser in eighteenth-century London by Richard Edgcumbe, p. 148..View Lot Notes ›
