A VERY FINE JAMES REITH, VERSAILLES GOLD PAIR CASE VERGE ESCAPEMENT REPEATER WATCH WITH REPOUSSE SCENE BY ISHMAEL PARBURY

Description: A VERY FINE JAMES REITH, VERSAILLES GOLD PAIR CASE VERGE ESCAPEMENT REPEATER WATCH WITH REPOUSSE SCENE BY ISHMAEL PARBURY
Gilt fullplate movement with fusee, engraved balance bridge cock with diamond endstone. Verge escapement. Repeater complication for the hour on push of the stem. The fullplate signed James Reith Versailles, with serial number 70. Gilt cap dust cover also signed with faint scratched serial 'F335-65'. The inner case edge delicately engraved and pierced with scroll and bird motifs culminating in a sun motif. The outer case pierced with scroll and swag decoration with four repoussé cherub motifs to edge. The rear with a repoussé depiction of the baptism of Christ, with an iconographic representation of the Holy Spirit as a dove by Ishmael Parbury, signed Parbury fecit.
Diameter: 52mm

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, 20th July 1989
The Collection of Dr Trevor Hyde, Sydney, acquired from the above