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MARKWICK London Late 18th century Gilded metal and shagreen*…
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MARKWICK London Late 18th century Gilded metal and shagreen*…
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Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
MARKWICK London
Late 18th century
Gilded metal and shagreen* repeater watch with triple protective cases, English-made for the Ottoman market.
Case: the main case in gilded metal, engraved and pierced on the middle, with a double metal back for the resonance of the repeater; the second case engraved with a maritime scene on the reverse; and the third case decorated with shagreen and perforated around the edges.
Dial: engraved metal, Turkish hour markers, signed.
Movement: gilded, verge escapement, finely engraved silver-plated cock re-perforated with scroll decoration, two-hammer repeater on gong, signed and numbered 426 mainplate.
(Operation not guaranteed).
Diam.: 54 mm (main case), 65 and 79 mm.
Includes: its 375-part gold key.
For this lot, SC E & S Portier is assisted by Géraldine Richard, SFEP experts.
*Specimen made from the dermis of a stingray (galuchat) of the Dasyatidae family, of the species known as the ‘pointed-nose stingray’* or, synonymously, the white-spotted whipray (Maculabatis gerrardi)
*Species not regulated under the Washington Convention (CITES) or by EC Regulation 338/97 of 9 December 1996 and the French Environmental Code
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