拍品专文
John Bittleston is recorded in Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World by G.H. Baillie, page 29, as being free of the Clockmakers Company 1781-1794.
细节
JOHN BITTLESTON. AN INTERESTING GILT, RED AND WHITE PASTE SET DOUBLE DIALLED ASTRONOMICAL VERGE POCKETWATCH
Signed John Bittleston, London, No. 1912, late 18th Century
The frost gilt chain fusee movement with turned pillars, separate dust ring, the white enamel dial with eccentric Roman chapter ring with Arabic five minute divisions, subsidiary dials for day, date and month, sweep centre seconds with stop lever in the band with outer seconds ring, the reverse dial with subsidiary rings for hours and minutes, the regulator, lunar calendar, and time of tide, sector to the centre for running seconds, in gilt inner and outer case with red and white pastes to the bezels
63 mm. diam.
Signed John Bittleston, London, No. 1912, late 18th Century
The frost gilt chain fusee movement with turned pillars, separate dust ring, the white enamel dial with eccentric Roman chapter ring with Arabic five minute divisions, subsidiary dials for day, date and month, sweep centre seconds with stop lever in the band with outer seconds ring, the reverse dial with subsidiary rings for hours and minutes, the regulator, lunar calendar, and time of tide, sector to the centre for running seconds, in gilt inner and outer case with red and white pastes to the bezels
63 mm. diam.