A GEORGE II GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING PAIR-CASE VERGE WATCH
Lot 121

A GEORGE II GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING PAIR-CASE VERGE WATCH

THE WATCH CASE WITH MARK OF JANE GALLANT, LONDON, 1760- AFTER 1773; THE MOVEMENT SIGNED JS HUBERT, LONDON, NO. 777, CIRCA 1760-1770

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A GEORGE II GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING PAIR-CASE VERGE WATCH
THE WATCH CASE WITH MARK OF JANE GALLANT, LONDON, 1760- AFTER 1773; THE MOVEMENT SIGNED JS HUBERT, LONDON, NO. 777, CIRCA 1760-1770
The case pierced with scrolling foliage and decorated with enamelled ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers and scattered flowers on reeded ground, with diamond set thumbpiece, marked inside the cover and base with maker's mark only; with gilt brass verge movement, chain fusée, pierced and chased cock and foot, turned baluster pillars, repeating on a bell, silver dust cover, white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, pierced gold hands, pierced and chased inner case, signed on dust cover and movement, with later velvet case
1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) diameter
gross weight 3 oz. 15 dwt. (118 gr.)

A European Private Collector; Christie's, Geneva, 14 November 1995, lot 10.

Specialist note


Jane Gallant is recorded in A. Grimwade, London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837, Their Marks and Lives, London, 1976, no. 1344 as having entered a mark as a smallworker on 25 May 1760. She appears in the Parliament Report list of 1773 as a watchcasemaker.