• Diameter:
  3 Inches
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  Other

This beautiful quarter-repeater pocket watch has ties to literary history. According to the inscription, this pocket watch was given to John Gay, an English poet and dramatis, by literary legend Jonathan Swift, both of which were founding members of the famed Scriblerus Club. The watch is distinguished by its pair case, the outer one of which is upholstered with shagreen, the inner of 18K gold. Fine blued steel hands and a porcelain dial add the perfect touch of sophistication. The workings reveal a wonderfully elaborate diamond jeweled movement.

The engraving along the circumference of the watch reads "JG may ye not be a Beggar after the opera, your confidant, Jonathan Swift Scriblerus Club, 1728." The movement is engraved "Markvick J, London, 298." The quote is in reference to Gay's famed play entitled "The Beggar's Opera," which debuted in 1728.

3" diameter

The English literary group known as the Scriblerus Club was formed around 1713 to satirize "all the false tastes in learning." and whose founding members included, along with Gay and Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Thomas Parnell. Meetings of the club were discontinued after 1714. The club's major production, "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," was published in Pope's prose works in 1741, although it is considered to be primarily the work of Arbuthnot. The influence of the club is seen in Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Pope's Dunciad.