Silver
Double-Jacketed Masonic Winding Pocket Watch
Here
is a Silver Double-Jacketed Masonic Winding Pocket Watch from the 18th
Century. Moving parts: gold plated moving parts with winding
restrainer, drive by chain and slug. Includes Ancient Masonic symbols,
intricate, lavish and elaborately engraved sliver balance hook. Silver
regulation dial( slow/fast) laid on a richly engraved ornamental base. Initialized
in ornamental gold print "Jordan & Dyke" number 542.
Masonic symbols on the hook: Chequered pavement, the columns Jachin
&Boaz, Square and Compasses, level, beehive, sun, moon, stars, arch and All-Seeing
Eye. Clock face (dial): Unblemished white enamel leaf with blue
hands, original glass! Inside casing: Punched London,1781, punctuated "I.R.".
Lower casing punched London 1790, punctuated "I.R.". Miscellaneous:
Golden winding up key with Masonic symbols: star, common gavel, level, and trowel.
Work of art's diameter outside approx.60 mm, inside approx. 50 mm,
Produced in England at the last quarter of the 18th century during Mozart's
time.
