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Brand :
Joseph Windmills
Model :
Joseph Windmills autres horlogerie
Category :
Procket Watch
Watch ID :
183 WITH
Case material :
Yellow Gold
Case form :
Round
Diameter :
ofcase52 mm
Description :
• Movement: gilded full plate, verge escapement, large decoratively pierced balance cock engraved with foliage and short streamers at the neck, fusee and chain, tulip pillars, signed J. Windmills, London;• Dial: silver champlevé, large aperture with rotating blued steel disc divided into day and night, the hours indicated on an outer semi-circular chapter ring with Roman numerals heightened with black wax, the daytime hours indicated by a golden sun with pointer, the night hours indicated by a silver moon with pointer surrounded by stars, outer Arabic minute ring with single blued steel hand, the lower half of the dial with central cartouches signed Windmills, London and surrounded by scrolling foliate flanked by two birds, dial edged with gilt ring;• Cases: plain silver inner, the back with shuttered winding aperture, bezel split for glass retention, ring pendant and bow, numbered 183 and with case maker's mark I.I with coronet above in cameo for Jonathan Jones • tortoiseshell outer case decorated with symmetrically arranged piqué decoration in the form of stylised foliage, the bezel with three concentric rows of pique, the central row interspersed with fleur-de-lys, inner bezel punch numbered 183;diameter of outer case 52mm, inner case 46mm
