Posted 8 years ago
bobbee
(105 items)
A beautiful Record military or military style w/w, made popular in WW1 by soldiers. The dial is porcelain with very faint hairline cracks near 11 o'clock. The hands are finely blued with no rust.
This type of styling, with a red "12" was worn during the great war and was copied until the 1930's as it was so familiar, and helped make wearing wrist watches by men more popular.
It is sitting on an early 20th. century chess set, I think Chinese as it has a Mandarin or Cantonese symbol or letter carved into the top of each king piece. Each piece is hand carved and polished from black and green onyx, each piece has slight differences that shows they are not machine made.
The 8'' x 8'' box is hand made and pegged together with tiny wooden pegs at each corner, and the tightly-fitted squares are black and white marble, flecked with pink and silver. The edging looks to me like a pink granite, highly figured.
If anyone can help with the letter on the king in picture 4, I would be grateful.
Bob.
