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Timothy Williamson, London

A RARE, IMPRESSIVE AND LARGE GILT-METAL PAIR CASED COACH WATCH WITH ꦅPOLYCHROME ENAMEL PAINTING OF A COCKEREL CIRCA 1785, NO. 2696 [罕見大型鎏金懷錶，飾琺瑯彩繪雄雞像，年份約1785，編號2696]

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Timothy Williamson, London


A RARE, IMPRESSIVE AND LAR🌱GE GILT-METAL PAIR CASED COACH ♋WATCH WITH POLYCHROME ENAMEL PAINTING OF A COCKEREL

CIRCA 1785, NO. 2696

[罕見大型鎏金懷錶，飾琺瑯彩繪雄雞像，年份約1785，編號2696]


• Movement: gilded, verge escapement, plain flat three-arm balance, large decoratively pierced balance cock engraved with flowers and foliage, a mask at the neck, the foot similarly decorated, silver regulation plate, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, signed and numbered Tim. Williamson, no. 2696

• Dial: white enamel, Roman numeꦫrals, outer Arabic min🀅ute ring, gilded beetle and poker hands

• Cases: plain gilt-metal inner case, plain pendant, the bow chased and engraved with leaves, case maker's mark TH incuse and numbered 2696 • gilt-metal outer, both bezels engine-turned, t🗹he centre of the&n﷽bsp;back with polychrome enamel painted cockerel within farmland   


diameter of outer case 101mm, inner 88mm


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Timothy Williamson was trained as a goldsmith and produced a number of elaborate watches and clocks for the Chinese market, possibly in collaboration with William Hughes. The Palace Museum in Beijing holds a spectacular musical clock by Timothy Williamson which incorporates an automaton figure of a man dressed in period clothes, most likely made by Jaquet-Droz. The figure writes 8 Chinese characters on a strip of paper with a brush dipped in ink. Also by Williamson and found at the Palace Museum are a pair of highly decorative flower vase clocks. For another watch made by Williamson for the Chinese market, see: Sotheby's London, The Celebration of the English Watch Part IV, 6 July 2017, lot 26. Timothy Williamson is recorded as active in London from c. 1769-88.