Delile

A VERY RARE GOLD SKELETONISED EIGHT-DAY CYLINDER WATCH WITH EQUATION OF TIME CIRCA 1760-1770

• Movement: skeletonised, cylinder escapement, flat three-arm brass balance, diamond endstone, exposed blued steel mainspring, silver regulation plate, steel turned baluster pillars, decoratively engraved border, skeletonised kidney-shaped cam for the equation work, bridge signed Delile
• Dial: crystal chapter ring with black Roman numerals, Arabic outer minute ring, gilt hands for time and equation of time indication
• Case: gold, chased and engraved with trophies of the seasons and swags, diamond-set thumbpiece, gilt metal inner bezel
diameter 50.5mm

Provenance:
Time Museum, Rockford Illinois, Inventory no. 4449
Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum Part II, 19 June 2002, lot 55