Antique English Verge Fusee ALARM Desk Watch Gilt Silver Engraved Chest c1698

Original price was: €7900.00 / $ 9198.34.Current price is: €5768.88 / $ 6716.98.

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Antique English Verge Fusee ALARM Desk Watch Gilt Silver Engraved Chest c1698

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HERE IT IS!!! I am pleased to offer from my private collection the unique antique English 17th Century Verge Fusee Alarm Regulator desk watch c1698. The watch is ​ONE OF A KIND!

Lets talk about the watch:

CASE: The watch has a highly ornamented and hand engraved gilt silver chest shaped case.   It opens both sides. The front cover opens to reveal the dial. The rear cover opens to reveal the movement. There is a special covered hole for fast winding. The watch is really impressive-360g heavy! 95mm x 60mm x35mm The case is engraved “London,1698”.

MOVEMENT:  A real masterpiece! The watch has a complicated three trains verge fusee fire gild deep full plate movement-all hand made and hand finished-fantastic hand pierced balance cock with floral motives,special regulator,striking with one hammer to the bell.

DIAL; It is entirely hand engraved . The dial is very complex,made of two sections. The biggest outer section depicting a silver ring with Roman numbers. The inner smaller rotateble section  depicting Arabic numbers for the alarm setting. Lets talk about the alarm. It has a very different cocept for alarm compare with later 18th and 19th Century watches. The later made watches works simple-if you want the alarm in 5 o’clock,then you place the alarm hand to 5 o’clock and thats it. But here it is more complicated. The alarm circle dial(with Arabic numbers) moves together with the hour hand and the alarm starts always on 12 o’clock. (12 from the small dial must match to XII from the main dial to sound alarm) So lets say that the watch show 2 o’clock in the moment and you need the alarm for 6 o’clock. This means that you need the alarm to sound after 4 hours. Then knowing that the alarm will start when the alarm dial point 12 o’clock matching to XII,you must put it to point to 4 from the alarm dial to match to XII. Then the alarm will start after 4 hours,or exact on 6 o’clock. Maybe sounds complicated,but this was the way how the first alarm watches worked.

Please note that this is the oldest and rarest watch in my collection-it is over 320 years old,but preserved  PERFECT WORKING ORDER!!!  All the function works.  It comes with the matching key. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT: This is not a toy,nor a daliy time keeper. This watch should be displayed in museum or in the special locked window case. Do not play with it,do not use it daly. If broken(God forbid) there are less than 5 watch masters in the world able to fix it for a smal fortune… My point:handle with extreme care. This is 320 years old time piece from the Golden Age of watch making,which has been given from generation to generation.

The watch comes with an authenticity and APPRAISAL CERTIFICATE FOR $20,000.00! Please watch the video below for better impression of the watch:

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Now is your only chance to buy this amazing piece!

NOTE:PLEASE OBSERVE CAREFULLY THE PHOTOS! IT IS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. Every potencial defect which is shown in the photos,but not mention in the description,will be considered for described.All the photos shoot by professional Nikon 105 Macro lens under 40x diopter magnification,so you can explore even the smallest detail like under microscope!

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Additional information
Weight 0.00000000 kg
DEPARTMENT

Men

TYPE

desk watch

MPN

Men desk watch Antique English Verg

Condition

Pre-owned

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