WILLIAM WEBSTER OF LONDON TORTOISESHELL PEAR CASED GENTLEMAN'S OPEN FACED POCKET WATCH

WILLIAM WEBSTER OF LONDON TORTOISESHELL PEAR CASED GENTLEMAN'S OPEN FACED POCKET WATCH with key wind fusee movement, white enamel dial, black Roman numerals, gold coloured hands with a Victorian glass dome ebonised base pocket watch stand, No. 692, circa 1700, case diameter approx. 45mm. Provenace: Athelhampton House, Dorset. William Webster was apprentice to John Barnett in 1701 and transferred to Thomas Tompion where he completed his apprenticeship and worked as a journey man and then became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.