2207
Travel pocket watch with self-strike
Benjamin Ward, London, 1780-90
metal, gilded; keywind; outer case partly open-worked and set with pearls and garnets, the back richly decorated with martial symbols; enamelled dial, with central second; verge escapement with chain and fusee, self-strike, petite sonnerie; decorated movement and balance cock with screwed ornamental stone, signed "Benj n Ward" and "London/1505" on the movement
dm. 9 cm (with case)
Literature
cf. Wien Museum, inv.no. "U 1506"
G.H. Baillie, Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World. 1, London 1947, p. 334
Estimate: € 5.000 - 10.000
Hammer price: € 5.000
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