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SIGNED ILBERY, LONDON, NO. 2097, CIRCA 1819
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ILBERY. AN 18K GOLD AND ENAMEL OPENFACE DUPLEX WATCH WITH CENTRE SECONDS, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
SIGNED ILBERY, LONDON, NO. 2097, CIRCA 1819
With gilt-finished movement highly engraved with flowers and scrolls, bi-metallic compensation balance with screws and blued steel trapezoidal weights, diamond endstone, engraved dust cover, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer ring with Arabic five minute divisions, gold spoon hands, centre seconds, the reverse with a painted polychrome enamel spray of flowering blossoms against a red guilloché enamel scalloped ground, to the champlevé enamel bezels, pendant and bow, movement signed and numbered
58 mm. diam.
SIGNED ILBERY, LONDON, NO. 2097, CIRCA 1819
With gilt-finished movement highly engraved with flowers and scrolls, bi-metallic compensation balance with screws and blued steel trapezoidal weights, diamond endstone, engraved dust cover, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer ring with Arabic five minute divisions, gold spoon hands, centre seconds, the reverse with a painted polychrome enamel spray of flowering blossoms against a red guilloché enamel scalloped ground, to the champlevé enamel bezels, pendant and bow, movement signed and numbered
58 mm. diam.
Provenance
"The Sandberg Watch Collection", Antiquorum Geneva, 31 March and 1 April 2001, Lot 297.
Literature
The Sandberg Watch Collection, published in 1998 by Antiquorum, p. 290-291.
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