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William Graham London AN IMPORTANT GOLD PAIR CASED QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH WITH REPOUSSE SCENE BY AUGUSTIN HECKEL 1724, NO. 66 • Movement: gilded full plate, decoratively pierced and engraved winged masked balance cock, plain flat balance, diamond endstone, fusee and chain, repeating on a bell to the inside case back, round baluster pillars • gilt metal dust cap • movement signed and numbered W. Graham, London, 66, dust cap scratch numbered 66 to underside, bell scratch signed Wilham Wyh and scratch numbered 66 • Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, Arabic outer minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands • Case: gold inner case with pierced band of scrolling foliage inhabited by birds, numbered below the pendant and with engraved townscape, mask to the base, centre of the back with engraved rosette, London hallmarks for 1724, case maker’s mark WS incuse for William Sherwood and numbered 66, the outer case chased with a repoussé scene depicting the hermit Diogenes and Alexander the Great, signed AH to the step for Augustin Heckel the surround pierced and engraved with foliate scrolls and divided into personifications of the Four Seasons, the bezel pierced with scrolling foliage and interspersed with panels representing the elements: salamander (fire), bird (air), fish (water) rabbit (earth), pulse piece below 5 o’clock, diamond-set thumb piece and catches above and below diameter 53 mm