HENRY LONG, LONDON, NO. 630

• gilt verge movement, balance cock pierced and engraved with scrolls, diamond endstone, quarter repeating on a bell • gilt dust cap • white enamel dial, Roman numerals, blued steel beetle and poker hands • the case pierced and engraved with foliate scrolls and a grotesque mask, the outer case quartered by four polychrome enamel portraits of fashionable ladies, spaced by vari-color hardstone panels, centered by an exotic bird set with jewels • inner case stamped twice with case maker's mark HT possibly for Henry Cleavor Taylor or Henry Teague, the movement and dust cap signed Henry Long London, colored watch paper printed "the map of a good woman's heart" 

Movement - running and repeating, the enamel with some very minor losses to edges, overall good quality. Dial - in good order with only minor marks to the surface. Cases – Inner case - with moderate wear Outer case - some stones and portraits with reinforced settings, portraits themselves are in good order; one green stone lacking to the end of the sprig beneath standing bird.
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For a nearly identical example by this maker, see: No. 076 in Guan Xeiling, The Imperial Taste: Rising Sun and Eternal Moon - Qing Dynasty Watches in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing pp. 182-183.

For another case with case maker's stamp HT see: T.P. Camerer Cuss, The English Watch, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009, p. 271.