Cornelius Harbert. An early pair cased silver verge watch with date and tumbling numerals dial
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Cornelius Harbert. An early pair cased silver verge watch with date and tumbling numerals dial

SIGNED CORNELIUS HARBERT, LONDON BRIDGE, CIRCA 1670

Fermé11 May 2009

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Cornelius Harbert. An early pair cased silver verge watch with date and tumbling numerals dial
Signed Cornelius Harbert, London Bridge, circa 1670
Gilt-finished verge movement, chain fusée, pierced and engraved scroll decorated balance cock, worm and wheel set-up regulator, tulip pillars, silver engine-turned dial with tumbling Roman numerals on blank cartouches, inner minute divisions, sunk centre, single hand, outer date ring, date indicated by a butterfly-shaped silver pointer on gilt revolving ring, plain inner case, silver and shagreen pinwork floral decorated outer case, movement signed
52 mm. diam.

Note du spécialiste

The watchmaker Cornelius Harbert or Herbert is listed in Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World by G.H. Baillie, Volume 1, p. 151, as "fine maker active in London in the 17th century".