William Anthony London A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE 8-DAY GOLD, ENAMEL, SPLIT-PEARL AND DIAMOND-SET DUPLEX WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET CIRCA 1800, NO. 1931 • Movement: highly decoratively engraved gilded oval movement, duplex escapement, polished steel five-arm balance, diamond endstone, large decoratively engraved hanging barrel and five wheel train providing long duration, gilt-metal cuvette signed William Anthony London, No. 1931 and with two apertures with corresponding engraved illustrations of a horse pulling a rope indicating the direction of wind and a pair of watch hands beside the off-set handset square • Dial: oval white enamel dial with subsidiary dials of equal size for time, Roman numerals for hours and minutes above subsidiary seconds with Arabic numerals, gold arrow hands for hours and minutes, counter-poised seconds hand, signed Wm Anthony, London • Case: oval case, the back centred with three diamonds and with diamond-set surround, framed by three rows of pearls separated by gold wire-work, outer bands of blue and red translucent enamel over engine turning, interspersed by white opaque enamel bands heightened with gold decoration, the bezels each set with two rows of split pearls, the pendant further decorated with split pearls, pusher in pendant to open back, case numbered 1931 length including pendant and bow 97 mm, width 58 mm
William Anthony London A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE 8-DAY GOLD, ENAMEL, SPLIT-PEARL AND DIAMOND-SET DUPLEX WATCH MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET CIRCA 1800, NO. 1931 • Movement: highly decoratively engraved gilded oval movement, duplex escapement, polished steel five-arm balance, diamond endstone, large decoratively engraved hanging barrel and five wheel train providing long duration, gilt-metal cuvette signed William Anthony London, No. 1931 and with two apertures with corresponding engraved illustrations of a horse pulling a rope indicating the direction of wind and a pair of watch hands beside the off-set handset square • Dial: oval white enamel dial with subsidiary dials of equal size for time, Roman numerals for hours and minutes above subsidiary seconds with Arabic numerals, gold arrow hands for hours and minutes, counter-poised seconds hand, signed Wm Anthony, London • Case: oval case, the back centred with three diamonds and with diamond-set surround, framed by three rows of pearls separated by gold wire-work, outer bands of blue and red translucent enamel over engine turning, interspersed by white opaque enamel bands heightened with gold decoration, the bezels each set with two rows of split pearls, the pendant further decorated with split pearls, pusher in pendant to open back, case numbered 1931 length including pendant and bow 97 mm, width 58 mm
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