Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A gold hunter cased pocket watch, by J. S. Townsend, 1554 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, the signed white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, outer red minutes scale and subsidiary seconds dial, with blued steel club hands, the full plate, top wind movement signed and numbered ‘699990’, the gold cuvette bearing presentation inscription of four sets of initials and dates from 1867 to 1956, the case scroll engraved all over with starburst accents and small blank escutcheon to the front, stamped ‘Warranted 18 carat fine’, diameter 54mm. £800-£1,000