A VICTORIAN ORMOLU ROYAL PRESENTATION TIMEPIECE

F. B. LAWSON, BRIGHTON, CIRCA 1860

Details

A VICTORIAN ORMOLU ROYAL PRESENTATION TIMEPIECE
F. B. LAWSON, BRIGHTON, CIRCA 1860
With motto 'ICH DIEN' to case, with porcelain panels to the frieze, the dial signed 'Lawson & Son, Brighton, the movement with constant force detent escapement, the giltwood base impressed to the underside '32904 / DS / 712', later winding key
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) high; 6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

Christie's, London, 11 November 1970, lot 48.
The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois, Inventory No. 357.
Sotheby's, New York, Masterpieces from The Time Museum, Part IV, 13 October 2004, lot 645.
with the European Decorative Arts Company, New York.

Literature

A. G. Randall, The Time Museum catalogue of Chronometers, Rockford, 1992, pp. 224-225, No. 100.
European Decorative Arts Company, Objets d'Art The 19th Century, No. 8, p. 18.

Exhibited

The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois.

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Lot Essay

Randall (op cit) states that it appears this movement was made at the Horological School in Geneva by F.B. Lawson, while a student there, he was presented with a silver medal for it in 1864. It was then cased in its present form and presented to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.

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