Yellow gold (750) pocket watch.
White enamelled dial, hour markers with Arabic numerals and
hour markers and minute markers in black.
Fusee and chain movement, with spiral under cock
with openworked foliage and a man's mask, centred on a rose-cut
rose-cut diamond in a closed setting.
Lock signed Jam CAWAN, Edinburgh, No. 614.
Marks in the bottom of the box: LONDON, 1793
[S], Lion passant; mark of the manufacturer of the box
T*P.
Repunched with Owl.
In a second yellow gold (750) box with engraved decoration
engraved and enhanced with polychrome enamels, translucent
or opaque enamels, of a vase on a pedestal in a
medallion, surrounded by lozenges and a crown of
branches of knotted leaves, under a draped canopy.
Ornamented case in suite. Cloudy counter-glaze inside.
inside.
Gross weight: 120.1 g. - Watch diameter: 40.5 mm - Case diameter: 47.5 mm
Case diameter: 47.5 mm.
Worn and missing enamels; star and hair on the
dial.
James COWAN, apprentice in 1744, active between 1760 and
1781, died in 1781.
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