Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

An 18ct gold pocket open face watch, the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, the keywound movement signed ‘Finer and Nowland, London’ and numbered ‘13862’, the engine-turned case hallmarked for London, 1859, diameter 47mm. £300-500

Finer and Nowland are recorded in Lommes, B., Watch and Clockmakers of the World, Vol 2, 2nd edition, N.G.A. Press, 1989; their dates, as a partnership, are given as 1800-1839.