18th Century gilded silver pair cased Verge pocket

18th Century gilded silver pair cased Verge pocket watch marked Will Kipling.
Condition Report: *From A Friend of Lunds*>
< Re Lot 37, the pocket watch, though it used to be a verge watch when first made, it has been 'upgraded' to a cylinder escapement somewhere around 1880. If you look at the movement you will see that, where the verge contrate wheel should be there is now a conventional wheel driving the cylinder escape wheel arbor. This was done back then in the event of a watch becoming badly worn or damaged. Watchmakers in the 1880s would have had cylinder escapement parts easily available whereas they would have had to make verge parts by hand. If you look at the escape wheel pivots, you will see that they are running in red jewels - something quite unknown back in the early 18th Century.