Details
A silver pair cased verge pocket watch, Buckingham, London, circa 1700,
silver champleve dial with Roman numerals and outer Arabic five minutes, the centre with two scroll and mask cartouches signed within Buckingham, London, gilt beetle and poker hands, signed gilt fusee movement numbered 919?, winged cock, unusual large baluster pillars, plain inner case indistinctly numbered and with casemaker's mark IW, plain outer case(damaged), diameter 55mm.
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silver champleve dial with Roman numerals and outer Arabic five minutes, the centre with two scroll and mask cartouches signed within Buckingham, London, gilt beetle and poker hands, signed gilt fusee movement numbered 919?, winged cock, unusual large baluster pillars, plain inner case indistinctly numbered and with casemaker's mark IW, plain outer case(damaged), diameter 55mm.
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Further details
This watch was probably made by Joseph Buckingham who worked at the Black-Moor's Head and Dial, Minories between 1690 and 1725.