Lot 9a

A WATCH MOVEMENT

By George Graham, London, No. 565, circa 1735

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £900
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Later white enamel dial and ‘beetle and poker’ hands, pierced bridge cock with diamond end-stone, the movement with square baluster pillars and chain fusée, cylinder escapement, with outer dust cover, now in a brass cast bezel and hung in a 'C'-shaped frame


See Jeremy Evans, Thomas Tompion at the Dial and Three Crowns, Wadhurst, 2006, p. 97, for a table of Graham's numbered watches.


George Graham (d. 1751), one of England's greatest watchmakers.  He was Tompion's assistant from 1696, his business partner from 1711 and succeeded him on his death in 1713.  He is also buried alongside him in Westminster Abbey.


CONDITION REPORT

The watch ticks when wound.


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