Thomas Reid, Edinburgh No.1100: An interesting 22ct. gold openface halfquarter repeating pocketwatch in plain consular case with presentation to the reverse, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic ten-minute divisions, gold spade hands, the signed and numbered frosted gilt fusee cylinder movement with finely chased, engraved and pierced cock and foot, diamond end-stone, the repeating mechanism operated by the pendant, hallmarked London 1799

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Thomas Reid, Edinburgh No.1100: An interesting 22ct. gold openface halfquarter repeating pocketwatch in plain consular case with presentation to the reverse, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic ten-minute divisions, gold spade hands, the signed and numbered frosted gilt fusee cylinder movement with finely chased, engraved and pierced cock and foot, diamond end-stone, the repeating mechanism operated by the pendant, hallmarked London 1799
50mm.diam.

Lot Essay

The presentation engraved to the reverse of this watch states "From the Officers of the Regiment in testimony of their esteem and regards as Commanding Officer, Brother, Soldier and Friend to Colonel Francis James Scott Dunbartonshire Fencibles, New Geneva, 12th May 1799." The story of New Geneva, a city to be founded on the bank of the Suir near Waterford in Eire to accommodate the refugees from Geneva, is told in an article accompanying this lot by Hubert Butler "New Geneva in Waterford".

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