SIGNED SAML SMITH, COVENTRY, NO. 127. BIRMINGHAM HALLMARK 1814

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Samuel Smith. A silver paircase pocketwatch with pirouette escapement
Signed Saml Smith, Coventry, No. 127. Birmingham hallmark 1814
The gilt movement with engraved cock and foot, chain fusee, steel five-armed balance with diamond endstone, pirouette escapement with polished steel pallets beating seconds, stop lever under the bezel impinging upon the rim of the balance, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds, gold spade hands, plain inner and outer cases
57 mm. diam.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased Sotheby's, 26 April, 1971, lot 141.

The pirouette escapement was designed to reduce shock to the gear train by having a second balance wheel rotating in each direction and permanently engaged with the first by wheel and pinion. Samuel Smith was known to have worked in London and Coventry and an example of his pirouette escapement is in the Ilbert Collection.

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