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| Index No. A5601 | Rare Early Single Handed Calendar Verge |
| A rare 17th Century English single handed calendar verge with Barrow regulator in silver and tortoiseshell pair cases. Deep full plate fire gilt movement with delicate tulip pillars surmounted by a gallery. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Pierced and engraved cock fixed by a screw. Rare Barrow screw balance spring regulator, the index engraved on the plate. Plain three arm steel balance. Silver champleve dial with Roman numerals pierced at the centre to reveal a blue steel plate, later single blue steel hand. Around the hour chapter a small silver hand mounted on a blue steel ring indicates the day of the month. Plain silver inner case with ring pendant and loose bow. Tortoiseshell covered outer decorated with silver pique pins, wire work and engraved representations of flowers, birds and a squirrel in the centre. | ||
| Signed | Jacabus Markwick London | |
| Condition | Circa | 1675 |
| Case | Excellent apart from some small sections of the tortoiseshell well repaired. | ||
| Dial | Excellent. | Diameter | 50 mm |
| Movement | Excellent. | Depth | 15 mm |
| A good and very early example of a balance spring verge. See Watches by Clutton and Daniels illustration number 102 for a watch by Henricus Jones with a Barrow regulator and page 39 where the author notes that "Barrow's type is now extremely rare". (First published 1965). Also of interest in the same book is colour plate Iva which shows a tortoiseshell case with almost identical decoration. This is the first watch we have ben able to offer with this form of regulator. |
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