Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

Gold watch with half-quarter repeating by Brockbanks, London, 1812. The four-coloured gold hunter case has chiselled floral ornament (a steel nib moves sideways to open the cover over the dial). The inner case has complicated engine-turning and is hallmarked and stamped on the inside with maker's mark WM, and the number 700. The gold dial has an engine-turned centre, covered with translucent red enamel, with an hour ring enamelled grey-blue and a subsidiary seconds dial. Gold wavy hands. The jewelled movement has a spring detent escapement with steel escape wheel, free-sprung helical spring and three-arm compensation balance with sliding weights each clamped by two tangential screws. The half-quarter repeater strikes on two gongs. Signed 'Brockbanks London No 700' and hallmarked for 1812. Formed part of the collection of the Reverend Henry Nelthropp, later donated by Nelthropp to the museum of Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

Clockmakers' Museum No. 440