Edward Banger, London. A fine and rare silver pair cased alarm watch, circa 1720The movement:
Engraved gilt full plate, plain steel three arm balance, verge escapement, pierced and engraved winged balance cock, silver regulation, Egyptian pillars.

The dial
Silver champleve, black infilled Roman numerals, inner half hour and quarter hour markers, gilt rim, central alarm disc with infilled black Arabic numerals with blued steel marker, single blued steel hour hand, winding holes for going alarm

The case
Engraved and pierced inner case, pierced and engraved square hinged outer with five knuckles
Outer case 57mm注脚Edward Banger (c.1668 - 1720) was apprenticed to Thomas Tompion in 1687 and became free of the Clockmakers Company in 1695.
Tompion and Banger worked together between circa 1701 - 08, when the partnership was abruptly (and somewhat mysteriously) terminated. Banger produced extremely few pocket watches under his own name, only three are still known to exist.