BROCKBANK. AN IMPRESSIVE AND VERY RARE GILT METAL, PASTE AND PEARL-SET TWO TRAIN PAIR CASED OPENFACE MUSICAL AND STRIKING COACH WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
SIGNED JN BROCKBANK, LONDON, NO. 1, CIRCA 1790
BROCKBANK. AN IMPRESSIVE AND VERY RARE GILT METAL, PASTE AND PEARL-SET TWO TRAIN PAIR CASED OPENFACE MUSICAL AND STRIKING COACH WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET SIGNED JN BROCKBANK, LONDON, NO. 1, CIRCA 1790 Full plate gilt-finished two-train cylinder movement with finely engraved floral decoration, chain fusée, musical pin barrel, playing on a nest of four bells via six steel hammers at will, finely pierced and engraved foliage decorated dust cover, white enamel dial, eccentric time display with Roman numerals, Arabic five minute divisions, centre seconds, three subsidiary dials for CHIME/NOT CHIME, seconds and MINUET/GAVOT, large inner case with finely pierced and engraved foliage decorated band, similarly decorated outer case with alternating split pearl and red paste-set bezel, centre seconds and music start lever in the bezel, movement and dust cap signed, inner case stamped with casemaker's initials IB 134 mm. diam.
BROCKBANK. AN IMPRESSIVE AND VERY RARE GILT METAL, PASTE AND PEARL-SET TWO TRAIN PAIR CASED OPENFACE MUSICAL AND STRIKING COACH WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
SIGNED JN BROCKBANK, LONDON, NO. 1, CIRCA 1790
BROCKBANK. AN IMPRESSIVE AND VERY RARE GILT METAL, PASTE AND PEARL-SET TWO TRAIN PAIR CASED OPENFACE MUSICAL AND STRIKING COACH WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET SIGNED JN BROCKBANK, LONDON, NO. 1, CIRCA 1790 Full plate gilt-finished two-train cylinder movement with finely engraved floral decoration, chain fusée, musical pin barrel, playing on a nest of four bells via six steel hammers at will, finely pierced and engraved foliage decorated dust cover, white enamel dial, eccentric time display with Roman numerals, Arabic five minute divisions, centre seconds, three subsidiary dials for CHIME/NOT CHIME, seconds and MINUET/GAVOT, large inner case with finely pierced and engraved foliage decorated band, similarly decorated outer case with alternating split pearl and red paste-set bezel, centre seconds and music start lever in the bezel, movement and dust cap signed, inner case stamped with casemaker's initials IB 134 mm. diam.
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