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GOLD AND ENAMEL ENGLISH VERGE

A late 18th Century English verge in a gold and enamel consular case with matching ratchet key.  Full plate fire gilt fusee movement. Pierced and engraved cock, large diamond endstone in a blue steel setting, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc.  Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  

Winding through the signed white enamel dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, gold beetle and poker hands.  22 carat gold and enamel consular case, the bezels with a scalloped pattern of translucent dark blue and white champleve enamel.  The back of translucent dark blue enamel over an engine turned ground.  Navette shaped polychrome enamel garden scene of a mother and two children within a white champleve enamel border.  Round gold pendant and stirrup bow, maker’s mark “I.W”.  Fine gold Breguet style ratchet key, the ring with  dark blue champleve enamel.  Short gold chain, a hinged gold clip with threaded safety collar at one end and small spring clip at the other.

George Philip Strigel, Pimlico, 1718 - 1798. Free of the Clockmakers Company 1781.  Watchmaker to Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.  In common with Vulliamy, who supplied a number of clocks and watches to the Royal family,  he used an alphabetic numbering system.

  • Hallmarked London : 1786
  • Diameter : 38 mm
  • Signed : Geo Phi Strigel    London  

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All items purchased will be shipped within 24 hours of receipt of order during a normal working period.  Items purchased over the weekend or public holidays will be shipped as soon as business resumes.

All items (unless stated otherwise) are shipped via Royal Mail Special Delivery for the UK and Insured Royal Mail Signed for for the Rest of the World.

Please note that Shipping via the Royal Mail outside the UK can take up to 23 working days (although this is pretty rare) depending on where it is being shipped to.

We offer the alternative of FED-EX International Priority shipping at an extra cost of £35 for Europe and £55 for the rest of the world.  This service normally takes 2 to 3 days.

Customs, Duties and Taxes outside of the UK is the responsibility of the purchaser.  All items shipped are full insured by ourselves until they reach their destination.

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