MARKWICK MARKHAM & BORRELL, LONDON, INNER CASE MARKED 1813

Established by James Marwick and Robert Markham around 1725, this firm specialised in the production of watches for the Turkish market (G. H. Baillie, Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world, London, 1976, p.210). Their watches were often decorated in enamel, many with picturesque scenes depicting a sailing boat by the waterside at sunset. One such example, dated to 1813, is in the Science Museum, London (acc.no.L2015-3593). Another example decorated with a watermill and of the same date, with a movement numbered 24713, was sold Centuries of Time: a Private Collection, Sotheby's Geneva, 14 May 2023, lot 1355.