Here For Auction is a Beautiful Antique Hallmarked Georgean Silver Kay’s Triumph Open Face Pocket Watch Dated 1911. Comes With Key.
William Kay was originally employed as a jeweller’s assistant and worked for Skarratt & Co of Worcester.
When he started his own company in 1890, known simply as Kays of Worcester, Kay still retained a love for the trade that he knew so well. His early catalogues show that he supplied jewellery and “clocks, watches and timepieces “to “Worcester and its vicinity”.
When Kay & Co Ltd bought Skarratt & Co from the Skarratt family in 1896 and amalgamated that business into Kay & Co Ltd and thereby acquired the contract to supply the Great Western Railway with clocks and watches.
This lovely silver pocket watch No 1415767 has a London import Hallmark “q” (1911) 0.925 silver, it is in near perfect condition, the hinges and the catches are good, both back and front close together, there are no dints or scratches, and just some lovely even pocket wear.
It has a brand new BCL Indestructable Plexyglass fitted. The lovely white dial signed Kay’s Triumph has no chips, stains, and just one allmost invisible hairline. it as golden Luis XV hands with black Roman numerals and outer minute track with a sub seconds dial at 6 o,clock, the watch measures 50mm across x 19mm thick.
The Swiss 3/4 plate going barrel Buren movement No 1415923 Signed BUREN (under dial) has a jewelled lever escapement, it is running very well and keeping good time.
Büren Watch
Founded 1873 in Büren, a medieval little town at the river Aare in Switzerland, by Fritz Suter-Antenen. Suter-Antenen produced pocket watches, first with cilinder escapement, after 1885 with Anker escapement, winding with key.
1898 H. Williamson Ltd. London bought the label and the factory, increasing the production of pocket watches in many calibres, all manufactured completely inhouse. From 1916 to 1923 a kind of interchangeable parts for the different calibres were developed. In 1925 a patent for the stones used as bearings was granted, these stones being pressed into their place, as applied today in every watch.
This Truly is a Beautiful Georgean Antique Collectors Watch.
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