JOHN GIBSON POCKET WATCH GOLD
John Gibson, London, No. 16. Made circa 1800, the case
with London hallmarks for 1810-11.
Fine and rare, 18K gold, pocket watch
Three-body, "consular", polished, fixed cuvette.
White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute
divisions, subsidiary seconds dial with Arabic four-second
numerals. Yellow gold pear hands.
41 mm., hinged, gilt brass, full plate, cylindrical pillars,
8 jewels, three in screwed chatons, fusee with chain, Harrison's
maintaining power, cut bimetallic compensation balance
with external temperature and meantime adjustment
screws, free-sprung blued steel helical balance spring with
terminal curves, diamond endstone, foliate engraved clock.