細節
EDMUND GILPIN. A SILVER OVAL ASTRONOMICAL PRE-HAIRSPRING VERGE WATCH
SIGNED EDMUND GILPIN, LONDINI, CIRCA 1640
Gilt oval verge movement, pierced and engraved balance cock, steel two-armed pre-hairspring balance wheel, worm set-up with blued steel decorative mounts, silver regulation dial, pierced Egyptian pillars, engraved gilt dial plate with putti, off-set silver hour dial with engraved and blackened Roman numerals, half-hour divisions, inner quarter hour ring, the center field engraved with view of a town and river, single brass hand, silver date ring with central engraved rotating disk with date pointer indicating the months, signs of the zodiac, the number of days in the month, and the inner ring indicating the day of the month on which the zodiac commences, the segment to the left of the dial with the day of the week and an engraved portrait of the deity, the three apertures to the right show the phases of the moon and the small sectors indicate the time of moonrise and moonset, in plain silver inner case with ring pendant and seven-piece hinge to the split bezel, contained in leather covered outer case with silver pinwork, movement signed
53mm long, 46mm wide
來源
The Albert Odmark Collection of Important Clocks and Watches, Christie's London, March 11, 2005, lot 219.
ALBERT ODMARK NOTES:
Purchased from G. Gschwind, 26 May, 1965.
Sold at Christie's, 9 March, 1965, lot 145.
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