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RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL , FOR COUNTESS OF BERKELEY
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RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL , FOR COUNTESS OF BERKELEY

FINE GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING POCKET WATCH WITH ARMORIALS, SIGNED RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, NO. 2315, CIRCA 1820

已结束2011年5月30日

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RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL , FOR COUNTESS OF BERKELEY
FINE GOLD OPENFACE QUARTER REPEATING POCKET WATCH WITH ARMORIALS, SIGNED RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, NO. 2315, CIRCA 1820
Gilt-finished full-plate movement, duplex escapement, balance cock engraved with sunburst pattern, diamond endstone, plain three-armed gold balance, plunge repeat, gold cuvette stamped LC, gilt textured dial, large gold Arabic numerals, sub seconds, case back finely chased and engraved with the arms of Mary Cole (1767-1844), the Widow of the 5th Earl of Berkeley, the Dowager Countess of Berkeley, glazed cover over the armorials, reeded band, cuvette and movement signed
Diameter : 53mm.

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US$4,000-6,000

With a fitted winding key.

The firm of Rundell and Bridge, silversmiths to the crown, became Rundell, Bridge and Rundell in 1805 when the founder Phillip Rundell took on his nephew as a partner. The company became widely regarded as one of the most important silver businesses in England, eventually opening agencies in such cities as Vienna, St. Petersburg, Calcutta and as far away as South America.

The armorials chased on the case of the present watch indicate that this would have most likely have been a gift to or a special order by the Dowager Countess of Berkeley. Mary Cole, the Countess, married Frederick Augustus Berkeley, the 5th Earl of Berkeley, on May 16, 1796. They were married until his death in 1810 and had twelve children together.