Fine Watches including Masterworks of Time, Collector’s Watches
Fine Watches including Masterworks of Time, Collector’s Watches
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
R & G Beesely, London
R & G Beesely, London No. 53556 A Swiss cased gold hunting cased lever watch with engraved portraits of an officer and a lady Circa 1845
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February 10, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
R & G Beesely, London
No. 53556
A Swiss cased gold hunting cased lever watch with engraved portraits of an officer and a lady
Circa 1845
• Movement: gilded, skeletonised bridges, lever escapement, compensation balance, signed to the main bridge R & G Beesely, London, no. 53556
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, gold spade hands, signed R & G Beesely, London
• Case: Swiss, gold, the front and back with champlevé enamel portraits of respectively an officer and a lady, engine-turned borders, milled band, polished gold cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting & marked Patent Lever, 22 Jewels, case back with Neuchâtel control mark, case maker's mark PM in oval cartouche, case back and cuvette numbered 53556, cover numbered 56
• Accompanied: by a later fitted box
diameter 47.5mm