Three similar Dutch gilt brass verge pocket watch movements Bearing various signatures, mid to late 18th century Each gilt full plate single fusee verge movement with scroll-pierced stop-iron block, faceted baluster pillars and sprung three arm balance, the backplate with foliate scroll pierced and engraved balance bridge and conforming applied infill adjacent to the silvered regulation disc, the first three with white enamel Arabic numeral dials incorporating arcaded minutes ring and bearing signatures Ja's Samson, London and John Witter, London to backplates, the third lacking dial and bearing signature John Travers, LONDON, the pillar plates measuring approximately 38mm (1.5ins) diameter, (3). Provenance: The beneficiaries of the Estate of an Italian connoisseur collector of horological artefacts and works of art. The three watch movements in the current lot are almost certainly of Dutch manufacture produced during the mid to late 18th century signed with 'spurious' London signatures. One diagnostic feature is that on such examples the layout of the regulation tends to vary slightly from typical English practice resulting in the silvered regulation disc being positioned on the opposite side of the movement (towards the left rather than the right when viewed with balance bridge uppermost).
Three similar Dutch gilt brass verge pocket watch movements Bearing various signatures, mid to late 18th century Each gilt full plate single fusee verge movement with scroll-pierced stop-iron block, faceted baluster pillars and sprung three arm balance, the backplate with foliate scroll pierced and engraved balance bridge and conforming applied infill adjacent to the silvered regulation disc, the first three with white enamel Arabic numeral dials incorporating arcaded minutes ring and bearing signatures Ja's Samson, London and John Witter, London to backplates, the third lacking dial and bearing signature John Travers, LONDON, the pillar plates measuring approximately 38mm (1.5ins) diameter, (3). Provenance: The beneficiaries of the Estate of an Italian connoisseur collector of horological artefacts and works of art. The three watch movements in the current lot are almost certainly of Dutch manufacture produced during the mid to late 18th century signed with 'spurious' London signatures. One diagnostic feature is that on such examples the layout of the regulation tends to vary slightly from typical English practice resulting in the silvered regulation disc being positioned on the opposite side of the movement (towards the left rather than the right when viewed with balance bridge uppermost).
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