Lot Essay
Although with keyless winding the watch also features the transitional stage of keywind and hand set.
SIGNED DENT, WATCHMAKER TO THE QUEEN, 33 COCKSPUR STREET, CHARING CROSS, LONDON, NO. 26594, 1870S
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Dent. A silver openface keyless pocket chronometer
Signed Dent, Watchmaker to the Queen, 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London, no. 26594, 1870s
The frosted gilt three-quarter plate fusee movement, jewelled to the third with screwed chatons, the plain cock with diamond endstone, free sprung, blued steel helical spiral with overcoils, bimetallic balance, Earnshaw spring detent escapement, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, in plain openface silver case with hinged cuvette, casemaker's mark JTW, with associated presentation box, dial and movement signed and numbered
59 mm. diam.
London 1871
Signed Dent, Watchmaker to the Queen, 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London, no. 26594, 1870s
The frosted gilt three-quarter plate fusee movement, jewelled to the third with screwed chatons, the plain cock with diamond endstone, free sprung, blued steel helical spiral with overcoils, bimetallic balance, Earnshaw spring detent escapement, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, in plain openface silver case with hinged cuvette, casemaker's mark JTW, with associated presentation box, dial and movement signed and numbered
59 mm. diam.
London 1871