Thomas Fitter, London. A gold key wind repeating pair case pocket watch with repousse decoration


Date: Circa 1720Movement: Gilt full plate fusee verge, pierced and engraved balance cock, diamond end stone, silver regulation, polished hammers, No.2001Dial: Later white, black Roman numerals, black outer minute track with Arabic numeral 5 minute markers, gilt spade handsCase: Pierced and engraved inner, inner bell (AF), associated repousse outer depicting a classical scene with Apollo playing a lyre surrounded by animalsSigned: Movement & capSize: 47mm
|From the collection of Claude Basil Fry (1868-1942).Claude was the great-grandson of Joseph Fry (1728-1787), founder of Fry's Chocolate and Fry's Typefounding, both in Bristol. Claude's grandfather Joseph Storrs Fry and father Richard were also both partners in the chocolate-making company J S Fry & Sons Ltd before Claude went on to become a Director of the company himself. Fry's produced the first chocolate Easter egg in 1873.