Timepieces Collection

Estinne Collomby (17th century)
Gilt-brass and rock crystal cased verge watch in the form of a crucifix

Signed on the back plate: Estienne Collomby, c. 1660

case; gilt-brass; engraved, rock crystal dial; silver, blued-steel

case 56.8 mm length case 35.9 mm width case 19 mm thickness movement 39.9 mm length movement 28.1 mm width movement 6 mm pillar height

Case: Gilt-brass and rock-crystal case in the form of a crucifix, the later gilt-brass cover engraved with the Crucifixion. Dial: Silver dial with hours I-XII, arrow-head half-hour marks and a quarters circle. Decorated with Emblems of the Passion. Blued-steel hand. Movement: Cruciform plates with baluster pillars. Ratchet and click set-up; fusee with gut line; three wheel train; verge escapement; pierced foliate balance cock with a very long shaped foot, screwed to the back plate. Signed on the back plate: Estienne Collomby Estienne Collomby, possibly Geneva, an unrecorded maker.

Dyson Perrins (1943?)

Thompson (2007)

Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.

WA1947.191.28

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