SIGNED EDMUND GILPIN, LONDINI. 1635-40

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Edmund Gilpin. An oval silver astronomical pre-hairspring verge pocketwatch
Signed Edmund Gilpin, Londini. 1635-40
The frosted gilt gut and fusee verge movement with delicately chased and engraved and pierced cock and foot with floral decoration, secured by a pin to a block in the top plate, steel two-armed pre-hairspring balance wheel, worm set-up with blued steel decorative mounts, silver regulation dial, pierced Egyptian pillars, finely engraved gilt dial plate depicting putti, offset silver hour dial with engraved and blacked Roman numerals, half-hour divisions, inner quarter hour ring, the centre field with finely engraved view of a town and river, single brass hand, silver date ring with central finely engraved rotating disk with date pointer, indicating the months, signs of the zodiac, the number of days in the month, and the inner ring indicating the day of the month on which the zodiac commences, the segment to the left of the dial with the day of the week and an engraved portrayal of the deity, the three apertures to the right show the phases of the moon and the small sectors indicate the time of moonrise and moonset, in plain silver inner case with ring pendant and seven-piece hinge to the split bezel, contained in leather covered outer case with silver pinwork
53 mm. long, 46 mm. wide

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

Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased from G. Gschwind, 26 May, 1965.
Sold at Christie's, 9 March, 1965, lot 145.

Edmund Gilpin was originally made a Freeman of the Leathersellers' Company and entered the Clockmakers' Company as a Free Brother in 1632. He is listed as having taken in eight apprentices and was made Assistant in 1646 but was apparently away for some years (perhaps in Oxford) and began to attend Court again from 1659-1672. It is also noted in the Clockmakers' Company books that Thomas Taylor paid quarterage for him in 1662 and his name last appeared in the books in 1677 when he was much in arrears with his quarterage. He was best known for his watch making.

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