Two English verge fusee pocket watch movements, Thomas Windmills, London, early 18th century, both full-plate with Egyptian pillars, the first with silvered regulation dial, finely pierced and engraved backcock and signed Tho Windmills, LONDON 5317 to backplate (incomplete and lacking dial), the second with 'pendulum' aperture to the finely engraved backcock with regulation scale behind, the backplate similarily signed but not numbered (fusee chain and dial lacking). For an almost identical watch to the latter of the two in this lot see Neale, A. J. Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watch makers 1671-1737 page 102. Provenance: The Workshop of John Hooper.
Two English verge fusee pocket watch movements, Thomas Windmills, London, early 18th century, both full-plate with Egyptian pillars, the first with silvered regulation dial, finely pierced and engraved backcock and signed Tho Windmills, LONDON 5317 to backplate (incomplete and lacking dial), the second with 'pendulum' aperture to the finely engraved backcock with regulation scale behind, the backplate similarily signed but not numbered (fusee chain and dial lacking). For an almost identical watch to the latter of the two in this lot see Neale, A. J. Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watch makers 1671-1737 page 102. Provenance: The Workshop of John Hooper.
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