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FIRST DAY’S SALE WEDNESDAY 25th JANUARY 2012 WATCHES & JEWELLERY Commencing not before 12.30pm Silver, watches and jewellery will be on view on: Saturday 21st January 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 22nd January 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 23rd January 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 24th January 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Weights and measurements are approximate guidelines only unless stated to the contrary IMPORTANT Anyone wishing to view the watches and jewellery will be requested to show identification. COLOURED GEM STONES Prospective buyers of coloured gemstones should be aware that some stones might have been treated to enhance their colour or clarity. Sapphires and rubies are commonly heat- treated and emeralds are commonly oiled. In the case of heat treatment, this is permanent but can affect the durability of the stones. In the case of oiling, this may need to be redone after a period of years. The international jewellery trade has generally accepted these methods. It is not possible for Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood to obtain gemmological reports on stones offered for sale and so prospective buyers should assume all gemstones may have been enhanced by some method. Enquiries: Lucy Marles Enquiries: Jethro Marles Tel. 01392 413100 =Tel. 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 110. A lady’s 18ct gold, keywound openface pocket watch, the foliate engraved gold circular dial with Roman numerals in a foliate engraved gold case. £500-£600. 111. A lady’s 18ct gold key-wound open- face pocket watch, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals in a gold case with vacant cartouche with attached swivel and key and a silver sovereign case. £400-£600. 112. A 20th century fob seal depicting St George slaying the dragon, suspended from a rope twist chain necklace. £900-£1300. 113. No Lot 110 112 111 32 114 114. Charles Goode. A late 18th century gold, repousse pair cased open face pocket watch, the fusee verge movement with backplate inscribed Chas Goode, London, the circular white enamel dial, 37mm diameter with Roman numerals in a gold case with hallmarks for London 1796, the outer case decorated in relief with Venus and Cupid within a surround of scrolls, foliage and oval portrait medallions. £2500-£3000. 115. An early 19th century French gold cased automaton repeat pocket watch, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, central visible movement incorporating automaton figures striking faux bells, in a case with guilloche engine-turned decoration, circa 1830. £2000-£3000. 115 33 116. 118. clockmaker to the Admiralty Isaac Hurley, London, a E Wise, Manchester a silver and he made his own type tortoiseshell pair-cased key wound open faced of adjustable spring detent. pocket watch, the fusee chronograph, the three- After his death on the 18th of movement having a verge quarter plate movement November 1849 his son Gerard escapement with a pierced having a lever escapement continued the business at 167 and engraved backcock, the with a split bimetallic Duke Street. * Casemaker Henry backplate engraved with floral compensating balance, Fontella is recorded as working decoration and the maker’s engraved backcock and signed at 335, Victoria Park, London. name ‘Isaac Hurley, London, ‘E Wise, Manchester, 24299, 1780’, the plates with Egyptian the white enamel dial with 120. pillars, the white enamel dial black Roman numerals, gold S. Charles, London, a silver with black Roman numerals, spade hands, an outer sweep key-wound open-faced repeat signature and gold chronograph hand and signed pocket watch, the chain ‘beetle & poker’ hands, the ‘Centre Seconds Chronograph, fusee movement having a inner case stamped with an 24299’, the case hallmarked verge escapement with a indistinct mark, the outer for silver, Chester 1888, with plain balance and a pierced case decorated with brown the case maker’s initial’s ‘A.G.’, and engraved backcock, the tortoiseshell, diameter: 48mm. diameter: 58mm. backplate signed ‘S. Charles, £500-£600 £250-£280 London, 11891’, the white * Isaac Hurley was apprenticed * Emmanuel Wise was born enamel dial with black Roman in 1737 and a freeman of the in Orseren, Poland in 1843 numerals and gold spade Clockmakers Company from moving to Manchester where it hands, the case hallmarked 1745 until 1790. is recorded he was working as a for silver, London, 1827 watchmaker at 33, York Street, and stamped ‘J.W.’ for the 117. Cheetham between 1876 and casemaker, diameter: 50mm John Sherwood, Faversham, 1884 £180-£220. a silver pair-cased pocket * Casemaker Alfred Gurney is 121. watch, the white enamel recorded as working at 3 Mount John Bennett, London, a dial with black Roman Street, Coventry. silver key-wound open-faced numerals and gold spade pocket watch, the chain hands, the chain fusee 119. fusee movement having a movement having a verge Richard Hornby, Liverpool, lever escapement with a plain escapement with a pierced a silver key-wound open- gold balance, the backplate and engraved backcock, the faced pocket watch, the chain signed ‘John Bennett, 65 backplate engraved with the fusee movement having a & 64 Cheapside, London, maker’s name ‘Jno Sherwood, lever escapement with a plain 33794’, the white enamel dial Faversham’, the plates with steel balance and engraved with black Roman numerals, round pillars, the inner case backcock, the backplate signed subsidiary seconds dial, blued hallmarked for silver, London ‘Richd Hornby, Liverpool, steel spade hands and signed 1838, the outer case for 1836, 25451’, the white enamel dial ‘John Bennett, London’, the both with the casemaker’s with black Roman numerals, case hallmarked for silver, initials ‘J.W.’, diameter: 56mm. subsidiary seconds dial and London, 1878 and stamped £150-£180 blued steel spade hands, the ‘P.W.’ for the casemaker, the * John Sherwood is recorded case hallmarked for silver, inner cuvee stamped ‘Maker working in Faversham, Kent Chester, and stamped ‘H.F.’ to the Royal Observatory’ and from 1845 until at least 1855 for the casemaker, diameter: with Bennett’s usual engraved * Casemaker possibly Joseph 50mm. Royal crest, diameter: 50mm. Walton, Upper Charles Street, £100-£150. £100-£150 Clerkenwell, London. * Richard Hornby was a * John Bennett was a fine well known clock, watch and watch and clockmaker recorded chronometer maker born on the working from 1857 until 1869, 14th of June, 1789 to Gerard when he was knighted, then & Hannah Hornby, originally in continuing to work as Sir John Scotland Road before moving Bennett FRAS until at least to 49 Pool Lane by at least 1883. 1832. Richard Hornby was also 34 * Casemaker Phillip Woodman 123. balance and signed ‘American of Benjamin Woodman & Sons Waltham USA, a 9ct Waltham Traveller, 17694964’ is recorded as working at 33, gold keyless open-faced giving a date of manufacture of Smith Street, Northampton gentleman’s pocket watch, circa 1909, the white enamel Square, Clerkenwell, London. the movement having a lever dial with black Roman numerals, escapement with a split bi- blued steel spade hands and 122. metallic compensating balance a subsidiary seconds dial, the American Waltham Watch and signed ‘A.W.W. Co. case stamped ‘Dennison Watch Co, a gold-plated keyless Waltham, 22960115’ giving a case Co, Moon, Guaranteed 20 open-faced gentleman’s date of manufacture of circa Years, 409656’, diameter pocket watch, the movement 1920, the white enamel dial 50mm. having a lever escapement with black Roman numerals, £100-£150 with a split bi-metallic blued steel spade hands, a * For details of Waltham and compensating balance and subsidiary seconds dial and Dennison see lot no. 122 signed ‘A.W.W. Co. Waltham, signed ‘Waltham USA’, the 6127408’ giving a date of case hallmarked for 9ct gold, 126. manufacture of circa 1892, Birmingham 1921, with the Elgin, a gold-plated, the white enamel dial with case maker’s name & serial engraved hunter keyless black Arabic numerals, blued number ‘Dennison Watch Case pocket watch, the movement steel spade hands, a subsidiary Co. Ltd, 232662’, diameter: having a lever escapement seconds dial and signed 50mm. with a split-bimetallic balance, ‘Waltham Watch Co’, the case £250-£300 overcoil hairspring and stamped ‘Crescent Warranted * For details of Waltham and engraved backcock, signed 20 Years, 693551’, along Dennison see lot no. 122. ‘G.M. Wheeler, Elgin Ill, with a paper certificate of 5116859’ giving a date of guarantee, diameter: 50mm. 124. manufacture of circa 1893, the £100-£150 Waltham USA, a 9ct white enamel dial having black * The American Watch Company gold keyless open-faced Roman numerals, a subsidiary was started in 1859 by former gentleman’s pocket watch, seconds dial and blued partners in the defunct Boston the movement having a lever steel spade hands the gold- Watch Company which was escapement with a split bi- plated case having engraved founded circa 1850, including metallic compensating balance decoration to the front, sides Aaron Dennison, when merging and signed ‘A.W.W. Co. and back, the latter with a stag the Waltham Improvement Co Waltham, Royal, 16020177’ to the centre and stamped with the Tracey, Appleton Watch giving a date of manufacture within ‘Champion, 2632797’, Co, becoming the American of circa 1908, the white diameter: 54mm. Waltham Watch Company in enamel dial with black Arabic £150-£180 1885 and the Waltham Watch numerals, blued steel spade * The Elgin Watch Company Company in 1905. Aaron hands, a subsidiary seconds was founded in Illinois as the Dennison was a founding dial and signed ‘Waltham USA’, National Watch Company in member of the original company the case hallmarked for 9ct 1865 by a number of former but left the firm in 1861 gold, Birmingham 1938, with directors of the American Watch and, after a number of other the case maker’s name & serial Company in Waltham.