Richard Cole, Butter Market, Ipswich. An unusual and large silver key wind full hunter pocket watch
Date: London Hallmark for 1798-9
Movement: Finely engraved gilt full plate fusee verge, pierced balance cock with engraved foliate scrolls, an urn, a lion mask and crossed palms, Joseph Bosley's form of regulation, round baluster pillars, No.1068
Dial: White enamel with regulator style black Arabic numeral hour markers, outer minute divisions, large subsidiary seconds, winding aperture at 3, blued steel spade hands, start/stop lever to edge of dial operating whip to contrate wheel
Case: Polished consular
Signed: Movement, case stamped 'WL' possibly for William Lewis
Size: 60mm
Footnotes:
Richard Cole was the first in a dynasty of watchmakers and his son, also named Richard, founded with Joseph Usher the well-known watch and chronometer makers, Usher & Cole.

Provenance:
John Francis Cole
T P Camerer Cuss Collection

Illustrated:
A Watchmaking Centenary, Usher & Cole, J F Cole and T P Camerer Cuss Published Privately, 1961 figure 3
The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, T P & T A Camerer Cuss, AC C 1976, plate 91 page 158 and figure 3 page 285