Lot Essay
ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased Christie's, 3 March, 1970, lot 159.
Purchased Christie's, 3 March, 1970, lot 159.
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SIGNED THOS. CUMMINS, INVT ET FECIT, LONDON, NO. 2499. LONDON HALLMARK 1824
Details
Thos. Cummins. A good silver open face English lever pocket watch with regulator dial
Signed Thos. Cummins, invt et Fecit, London, No. 2499. London hallmark 1824
The frosted gilt chain fusee movement with plain cock and foot, engraved J. Mayfield, AD 1825, with diamond endstone, the bimetallic balance with free-sprung blued steel helical spiral, steel English lever escapewheel with jewelled pallets and screwed banking pins, jewelled to the third with screwed chatons, the white enamel dial with regulator layout, offset Roman chapter ring, outer minute ring with Arabic five minute divisions, eccentric seconds below the 12, blued steel hands, in silver consular case with gold hinges
55 mm. diam.
Signed Thos. Cummins, invt et Fecit, London, No. 2499. London hallmark 1824
The frosted gilt chain fusee movement with plain cock and foot, engraved J. Mayfield, AD 1825, with diamond endstone, the bimetallic balance with free-sprung blued steel helical spiral, steel English lever escapewheel with jewelled pallets and screwed banking pins, jewelled to the third with screwed chatons, the white enamel dial with regulator layout, offset Roman chapter ring, outer minute ring with Arabic five minute divisions, eccentric seconds below the 12, blued steel hands, in silver consular case with gold hinges
55 mm. diam.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
Sale room notice
The movement illustrated as lot 165 is, in fact, the movement of lot 163.