Antique Silver Fusee Pocket Watch, London 1835

An antique sterling silver fusee pocket watch.

The watch has a key-winding movement which is ticking away and the time keeping is good to around 5 minutes over 24 hours. The nicely jewelled movement is numbered 4889. The movement is protected by its original dust cover.

The watch measures 50mm diameter excluding the winding crown and the loop. The sterling silver case has London hallmarks for 1835 with the case makers mark GH (George Hammon). The inner dust cover is inscribed John Tucker Dec 29th 1852. The case has light surface marks from use and a mild unevenness to the outer edge of the back although not over noticeable, but otherwise it is in nice condition.

The watch glass is in good condition.

The finely engraved silvered dial has foliate detail to the centre and applied gold Roman numerals . The dial has light age related discolouring but otherwise it is in nice condition.

The watch has blued steel hands (the hour hand is later although antique)

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All of our watches are checked over before listing, and are also checked for accuracy which is usually within around +/- two to three minutes over 24 hours (unless otherwise stated), which is considered respectable for a vintage watch.

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