MARKWICK MARKHAM & BORRELL, LONDON, INNER CASE MARKED 1813

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AN ENAMELLED GOLD TRIPLE CASED VERGE WATCH FOR THE OTTOMAN MARKET
MARKWICK MARKHAM & BORRELL, LONDON, INNER CASE MARKED 1813
Gilt-finished verge movement, signed white enamel dial with Turkish numerals and outer minute ring, gold hands, plain gold inner case with winding aperture on the back, the gold mid case enamelled on the reverse with a riverside landscape, outer gold openback case with scalloped border containing enamelled floral decoration, inner case and movement no. 24560, inner case marked AN (Augustus Newman), London, dated 1813
Outer case 1 5⁄8 in. (4.2cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Established by James Marwick and Robert Markham around 1725, this firm specialised in the production of watches for the Turkish market (G. H. Baillie, Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world, London, 1976, p.210). Their watches were often decorated in enamel, many with picturesque scenes depicting a sailing boat by the waterside at sunset. One such example, dated to 1813, is in the Science Museum, London (acc.no.L2015-3593). Another example decorated with a watermill and of the same date, with a movement numbered 24713, was sold Centuries of Time: a Private Collection, Sotheby's Geneva, 14 May 2023, lot 1355.

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