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Rare Gilt Toy Metal Chatelaine and Watch

A rare mid 18th Century gilt toy chatelaine and watch. Small gilt watch with chased and engraved back, white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and hands. Small chased and engrave clip, two short chains supporting the watch and two other chains, one with a key.

Circa 1760

£1,500.00 Add to cart
Rare Gold Decorated Watch and Chatelaine

A mid 18^th Century French verge in a rare steel case with three colour gold decoration and matching chatelaine. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Large silver regulator dial. Square baluster pillars. Winding through the white enamel dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced gilt hands. Rare gunmetal steel consular case, narrow gold bezels and gold hinge. Front bezel and back with an applied gold geometric border. In the centre of the back applied three colour gold decoration of a couple in a garden. Attractive matching gunmetal steel chatelaine, the pierced buckle and oval cartouches decorated in a similar manner to the watch.

An unusual and rare form of decoration

Circa 1760

£18,000.00 Add to cart
Cut Steel Chatelaine and Accessories

A mid 18^th Century cut steel chatelaine with oval enamel portrait. Openwork steel buckle decorated with faceted cut steel pins supporting six cut steel chains. The centre two for the watch and the others for accessories. Three accessories attached – one a gilt filigree owl, a stone set gilt seal inscribed “Mary” and a very unusual small pen knife in the form of an underpainted horn covered shoe. Sprung cut steel latches with threaded locking collars, one damaged.

Circa 1760

£490.00 Add to cart
Rare Steel Cased French Verge Pocket Watch

A rare mid 18^th Century French verge in a chased steel and gilt consular case. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm steel balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator. Pentagonal baluster pillars. Wound through the signed white enamel dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, decorative pierced gold hands. Very rare steel consular case, the scene of a couple in a garden and a man sitting on an arch chased and engraved. The matted areas of the scene washed with gilt. Polished steel interior, steel pendant and bow.

Steel cases for watches are very rare. The scene has been cut into thick gauge steel and the engraving is still crisp

Circa 1760

£3,900.00 Add to cart
English Gold Pair Cased Verge

An 18^th Century English verge in gold pair cases with applied enamel decoration. Full plate fire gilt movement with round pillars. Pierced and engraved masked cock, diamond endstone in a blue steel setting. Silver regulator disc. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. White enamel dial with radially set Arabic numerals, pierced gold hands. Matching gold pair cases, gold pendant and bow, maker's mark “HPC” in a rectangle. The outer case decoratively chased and engraved, central polychrome enamel plaque with split pearl border applied to the back.

Hallmarked London 1767

£4,100.00 Add to cart
Engraved Gilt Metal Chatelaine

A late 18^th Century chased and engraved gilt metal chatelaine. Gilt clip buckle suspending three further oval cartouches, two extra chains also linked to the clip. Two further short chains, swivel latches with hinge and threaded safety ring, one damaged attached to the ring.

Circa 1770

£750.00 Add to cart
Gold and Enamel Stone Set Verge

An 18^th Century Swiss verge in a stone set gold and enamel consular case. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator. Winding through the signed white enamel dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced stone set hands. Gold consular case, oval cartouche on the back of three colour gold and enamel within a stone set frame surrounded by a border of light green translucent enamel over an engine turned ground. Outside this a further band of enamelled foliate decoration with applied gold rope band. Stone set front bezel.

Circa 1770

£3,900.00 Add to cart
Early Subsidiary Seconds English Verge Pocket Watch

An 18^th Century English verge with subsidiary seconds in gilt metal pair cases. Full plate fire gilt movement with turned pillars. Pierced and engraved cock, silver regulator disc. Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Lateral steel stop lever acting on the contrate wheel. White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, and Arabic numerals, blue steel hands. Gilt metal pair cases, gilt pendant and bow, the inner bearing marks intended to resemble hallmarks.

An early example of a verge with subsidiary seconds. Although some makers introduced watches with seconds shortly after the balance spring was introduced the practice was largely abandoned as the verge escapement was not accurate enough. The seconds subsidiary on this watch is not exactly at 6 o'clock, its position dictated by the contrate wheel pinion

Circa 1770

£1,190.00 Add to cart
Gilt Metal Chatelaine

An 18^th Century continental gilt metal chatelaine. Chased and engraved links and buckle depicting birds within oval frames. Three links supporting the attachment for the watch also linked by two subsidiary chains. Two similar further chains for accessories fitted with sprung clips.

Circa 1770

£900.00 Add to cart
Gilt Metal Chatelaine

An 18^th Century continental gilt metal chatelaine. Chased and engraved links and buckle depicting animals and flowers. Two chains for accessories similarly decorated with flowers. Three hinged clips secured by threaded collars.

Circa 1770

£625.00 Add to cart
Quarter Striking Centre Seconds Coachwatch

A fine large Chinese market. 18th Century English quarter striking clockwatch with centre seconds in paste set gilt metal pair cases. Full plate fire gilt movement with signed and numbered gilt dust cover. Pierced and engraved masked cock set with a large cabochon garnet endstone, silver regulator disc. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Fusee and chain. Large resting barrel for the petite sonnerie quarter strike, two polished steel hammers striking a bell in the case. White enamel dial with centre seconds, Roman and Arabic numerals, fine gilt beetle and poker hands. Large pierced and engraved inner case with gilt pendant and bow. Two steel levers, one for strike / silent, the other to stop the watch. Pierced and engraved gilt metal outer case, the front bezel set with a row of red and clear paste stones.

An impressive English coachwatch made for the Chinese market. Timothy Williamson, 1769 – 88. A musical centre seconds watch made for the Emperor of Chine is in the Carnegie Museum. A number of clocks by him with music and automaton are held in the Palace Museum, Beijing. See a cylinder watch given to this maker by William Hughes in 1786, item A10442.

Circa 1770

£18,500.00 Add to cart
Rare Gold and Glass French Verge Pocket Watch

An 18^th Century French verge in an unusual gold mounted glass consular case. Full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue steel indicator. Winding through the fully restored white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced gilt hands. Unusual gold consular case mounted with ruby glass to the bezels and amber glass to the back. The glass retained by pierced and engraved repousse frames with translucent green enamel. In the centre of the back a repousse depiction of Leda and the Swan.

Circa 1770

£6,500.00 Add to cart