A SILVER REVOLVING DESK TIMEPIECE COMPENDIUM WITH BAROMETER, CALENDAR, THERMOMETERS, AND COMPASSRETAILED BY GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS, LONDON, EARLY 20th CENTURYThe circular back-wound eight-day nickel-finished watch type movement with lever escapement and 1.75 inch circular silver-gilt Roman numeral dial, set into a cube with the right hand side incorporating a calendar comprising revolving ivory cylinder annotated for days of the week against respective table for date-of-the month beneath sector for month-of-the-year (adjusted by rotating a disc set within the case), opposing twin mercury tube FAHRENHEIT and CENTIGRADE scale thermometers to the left hand side, the rear with conforming gilt dial aneroid barometer annotated in barometric inches and with the usual observations, applied to a hinged panel allowing access for winding and setting of the calendar numbered 204 to interior, the top with inset gilt compass dial, mounted via a rotating pivot onto a plinth base with canted angles engraved with initials P.M. to front over conforming lapis lazuli base; with original blue velvet lined gilt tooled travelling/display case inscribed GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS COMPANY LTD, 112 REGENT STREET, LONDON, W. to leading edge, (925 import marks, lacking clock hands).The timepiece 9cm (3.5ins) high, (7.5cm (3ins) square at the base.Provenance: Private collection, East Midlands.The retail jewellers, silversmiths, watchmakers and supplier of luxury goods, Goldsmith and Silversmith Company, was established at 112 Regent Street, London, by John Lawrence Langman and William Gibson in 1880. The business absorbed the Goldsmiths' Alliance Limited in 1893 and became a limited company itself in 1898. They exhibited at various international exhibitions including London (at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition) 1886, Paris 1889, Chicago 1893, California 1894, Paris 1900 and London 1908. In 1952 Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company Limited were amalgamated with Garrard and Company Limited.Please note Dreweatts have an ivory exemption licence for this lot WSHWHEZ6