JOSHUA WILSON. A SILVER OPENFACE ALARM VERGE WATCH
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JOSHUA WILSON. A SILVER OPENFACE ALARM VERGE WATCH

SIGNED JOSH WILSON, LONDON, NO. 1334, CIRCA 1710

Closed14 December 2010

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USD 3,000

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JOSHUA WILSON. A SILVER OPENFACE ALARM VERGE WATCH
SIGNED JOSH WILSON, LONDON, NO. 1334, CIRCA 1710
Gilt-finished verge movement, pierced and engraved balance cock, pierced Egyptian pillars, engraved spring barrel to the alarm train striking on a bell, silvered dial, Roman numerals, alarm disk with Arabic numerals and blued steel indicator, pierced case engraved with grotesque patterning, movement signed
53mm diam.

Specialist note

G.H. Baillie records a Joshua Wilson working in London at Lombard Street in 1712 and at Clement's Lane in 1720.