拍品專文
It is rare to find such a coach watch signed James Cox, a renowned maker of complicated musical and automaton clocks and highly decorated scent bottles for the Chinese market.
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SIGNED JAMES COX, LONDON, NO. 8049, 1774
細節
Cox. A highly unusual and rare gilt metal and shagreen striking coach watch with regulator dial, flying fifths of a second and date
Signed James Cox, London, No. 8049, 1774
With gilt-finished two train movement, cylinder escapement, chain fusée, finely pierced and engraved balance cock and foot, turned pillars, en passant striking on two steel hammers onto a bell signed Drury, gilt dust cover, the white enamel dial with outer Arabic minute divisions with central minute hand, small hour dial with Roman numerals and single hand, three subsidiary dials indicating flying fifths of a second, date and constant seconds, in large circular gilt and shagreen pierced case, dust cover, dial and movement signed
112 mm. diam.
Signed James Cox, London, No. 8049, 1774
With gilt-finished two train movement, cylinder escapement, chain fusée, finely pierced and engraved balance cock and foot, turned pillars, en passant striking on two steel hammers onto a bell signed Drury, gilt dust cover, the white enamel dial with outer Arabic minute divisions with central minute hand, small hour dial with Roman numerals and single hand, three subsidiary dials indicating flying fifths of a second, date and constant seconds, in large circular gilt and shagreen pierced case, dust cover, dial and movement signed
112 mm. diam.