EMANUEL’S, London. No 7251
Rare duplex watch with jewelled impulse and steel escape.
£3,495.00
Substantial silver-gilt barrel-edge case hallmarked 1820, casemaker IB (probably John Baxter). Capped fullplate going-fusee movement jewelled to the 3rd, with cap jewels on balance (diamond) and escape. Best quality duplex (frictional rest) escapement with polished steel escape and jewelled impulse. Compensation balance of the relatively new Pennington screw-type, spiral balance-spring. Lovely one-piece off-white enamel dial with unusual minute markings, gold hands. 55 mm diameter.
Emanuel’s, presumably an earlier name used by Joel Emanuel and his Brother who are recorded in Britten as working in London from 1826 as “watch & clock wholesalers”
NB: Chronometer escapement watches apart, watches with a duplex escapement were the earliest English ‘domestic use’ watches to be regularly fitted with compensation balances or compensation-curbs, being considered the best watches of the period. Rare examples have improved escapements with a jewelled impulse, sometimes paired with a steel rather than brass escape, as here.
This watch is featured in my latest Profile No 4 on Tyrer’s Duplex escapement, page 20.
A rare example of a best quality English duplex watch, few of which are recorded. Dial with some faint edge cracks and other minor signs of use, otherwise in fine original condition. Serviced and guaranteed.
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Description
Substantial silver-gilt barrel-edge case hallmarked 1820, casemaker IB (probably John Baxter). Capped fullplate going-fusee movement jewelled to the 3rd, with cap jewels on balance (diamond) and escape. Best quality duplex (frictional rest) escapement with polished steel escape and jewelled impulse. Compensation balance of the relatively new Pennington screw-type, spiral balance-spring. Lovely one-piece off-white enamel dial with unusual minute markings, gold hands. 55 mm diameter.
Emanuel’s, presumably an earlier name used by Joel Emanuel and his Brother who are recorded in Britten as working in London from 1826 as “watch & clock wholesalers”
NB: Chronometer escapement watches apart, watches with a duplex escapement were the earliest English ‘domestic use’ watches to be regularly fitted with compensation balances or compensation-curbs, being considered the best watches of the period. Rare examples have improved escapements with a jewelled impulse, sometimes paired with a steel rather than brass escape, as here.
This watch is featured in my latest Profile No 4 on Tyrer’s Duplex escapement, page 20.
A rare example of a best quality English duplex watch, few of which are recorded. Dial with some faint edge cracks and other minor signs of use, otherwise in fine original condition. Serviced and guaranteed.
