William Ilbery

Ilbery, London A gold and polychrome enamel painted duplex watch made for the Chinese market Circa 1820, no. 5936 • Movement: frosted gilded full plate with decorative floral engraving, fusee and chain, duplex escapement with ruby insert in the staff, polished steel five-arm balance, diamond endstone, signed and numbered Ilbery, London, no. 5936, gilded dust cap with decorative engraving • Dial: restored white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, large subsidiary seconds, gold spade hands • Case: gold and enamel, the back polychrome enamel painted in the manner of Jean-Louis Richter with a lakeside scene, a town in the mid-ground and mountains in the background, two figures on the shore and a fishing boat in the foreground, framed by restored translucent blue enamel border over an engine-turned ground, bezels of champlevé enamel in opaque black and translucent red, intersected by gold floral garland, gold and champlevé enamel pendant and bow, pusher through pendant to release case back, revealing a fixed inner engine-turned domed cuvette with aperture for winding diameter 59.5mm