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Rigby Graham (British, born 1931) Mont Herault Watch House, Pleinmont Guernsey acrylic, signed and dated `81 lower left 13¼ x 16½in. (33.5 x 42cm.) See Illustration

9ct gold fancy link pocket watch chain with `T` bar (white metal fitting to one end) and 9ct gold fob engraved to the reverse `K.S.P.S Swimming 14 yrs Champ G Graham 1913/4`, chain length 42cm. Gross weight approx. 41.9 grams

An 18ct gold open face crown wind pocket watch by Benjamin Graham, Wakefield, the movement no.16741, the circular white enamel dial set with Roman numerals and subsidiary dial, the inner case inscribed "Presented to Mr Thomas Wright by the workmen of Calder Vale Ironworks, March 1st 1873", hallmarked for 1872, diameter of dial 5cm.

A verge pocket watch movement set with a diamond, movement marked Graham, London

N gauge, four Graham Farish BR blue diesel locomotives: consists of 371230 Co-Co `The Lass O`Ballochmyle 47635`; 371586 1Co-Co1 `46053`; 8415 Co-Co `The Black Watch 55013`; 8007 Co-Co `County of Hertfordshire 47583`. All E, boxed. (4).

Watercolour `The Watch House` Polperro, Cornwall, signed Graham Munt.

A SILVER LEVER WATCH, SIGNED ON THE ENAMEL DIAL JAMES GRAHAM CARRICKFERGUS AND INSCRIBED IN RED CHRONOMETER BALANCE, LONDON 1910

An 18th Century silver pair cased Pocket Watch the chain driven fusee movement inscribed George Graham, London, No 5009 with repoussé outer case

A fine George III mahogany longcase clock with dual Julian and Gregorian calendar indication and deadbeat escapement. George Lindsay with movement attributed to the workshop of George Graham, London, circa 1752. The substantial fully latched five pillar rack and bell striking movement with plates measuring 8.5 x 7.25 inches, deadbeat escapement and currently of month duration with five-wheel trains, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with dual Julian and Gregorian date of the month apertures and subsidiary seconds dial to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, the angles applied with fine female mask and scroll cast gilt spandrels beneath arch centred with a silvered boss signed George Lindsay, LONDON flanked by dolphin cast mounts, the case with convex sided upstand incorporating brass foliate engraved sound fret infill to frieze and mahogany ball finials above break-arch cavetto cornice and free-standing large diameter columns flanking the hood door, the trunk with break-arch one-piece mahogany door over plain plinth base with moulded double skirt and squab feet, the interior of the case inscribed in pencil 1752 KV, 241 (95ins) excluding top finial, 251cm (99ins) high overall; with a period copy of Thomas Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Basket An Act to amend an Act made in the last Seffion of Parliament (intituled, An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year, and for correcting the calendar now in Ufe.) 1752. (2). George Lindsay is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in London from circa 1743 until his death in 1776, as well as being a watch and clockmaker Lindsay also produced scientific instruments. In 1743 he published an advertisement for a `Generally Portable` microscope, in another hand written trade pamphlet Lindsay refers to himself as `Watch & Clockmaker to his Royal highness ye Prince of Wales at ye Dial near Catherine Street in ye Strand`. He was later appointed watchmaker to George III, a position he held until his death in 1776. The movement of the current lot with its distinctive substantial bulbous knopped pillars, teardrop shaped pivot cocks for the under dial work and other more subtle details such as the elongated collet for the escape wheel and the suspension cheeks being screwed to the lower edge of the backcock nib, indicates that it originated from the workshop of George Graham. The overall arrangement of the strikework and the impressive nature of the snail/hour wheel assembly is typical of Graham`s work and can be directly compared with numerous examples of his work such as number 777 sold Christie`s King Street, June 1994 (lot 483). The presence of a deadbeat escapement and larger than normal plates is noteworthy suggesting that the current lot may have been devised with further refinements in mind. Originally the movement was made to run for eight-days only and was fitted with bolt and shutter maintaining power (dial has vacant slot at 3 o`clock for the shutter lever and movement has related vacant holes in the plates) however the duration has been increased with by inserting another wheel into each train and reversing the winding pulleys. The bolt-and-shutter maintaining power was removed at this time as it is would be no longer required in a long duration movement. These improvements were probably done early in the clock`s life perhaps even by Lindsay himself however there is no immediate evidence to confirm this. The provision of two date apertures (to give the date of the month according to both the Julian and Gregorian calendars) to the centre of the dial indicates that the current lot was made at the time when the `new` calendar was adopted by Act of Parliament in 1752. By this time the Julian calendar had become inaccurate (due to the error in the estimation of the length of the day) causing difficulties in respect to the synchronisation of the vernal equinox and subsequent calculation of Easter. In order to correct the error twelve days were added to the British calendar at midnight on September 2nd 1752 and the rules for calculating leap years were altered. The Roman Catholic Church had adopted the new calendar in 1582 with most of Continental Europe (under Catholic rule) following shortly afterwards, Great Britain was the last major Western European state to implement the new calendar.

A silver quarter repeating verge open faced pocket watch, the case dated `1675`, the elaborately engraved backplate with diamond endstone to balance, inscribed `Geo Graham, London 528` the dust cover inscribed `Geo Graham, London`, 1.6" diameter

19th Century English silver pair cased verge pocket watch by G. Graham, London

A key-wound silver cased gentleman’s open face pocket watch, movement inscribed Graham & Sons, Lockerbie 84063, case marked Newcastle 1843

A SILVER OPEN FACED POCKET WATCH the white enamel dial with roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, signed Geo. Graham London 4918. Converted pocket watch movement by George Graham, expertly fitted into a modern silver case.

Early 19th century silver fusee verge pair case pocket watch, the movement signed Geo Graham, London, no. 9554, with gilt pierced balance cock, silver regulating dial and turned pillars, the enamel white dial with Roman numerals within matching outer cases, 54mm (outer case a.f)

George Graham, London. A fine and rare early 18th century pair cased gold quarter repeating pocket watch, numbered 452 , circa 1718, the gilt full plate verge movement with turned cylindrical pillars, the mask head acanthus scroll pierced and engraved balance cock with silvered regulation, and diamond endstone, signed George Graham, London and numbered 452 ,the polished hammers striking on an internal bell, the engraved and shaded dial with Roman numerals and Arabic five minute divisions, central scroll cartouches signed Geo, Graham, London , and gilt hands, the gold inner case with central mask head cartouche and dragon and grotesque scroll sounds frets, the outer case with pierced foliate interlaced guilloche bezels with rose cut diamond push thumb piece Provenance: Private collection acquired at Sotheby s in 1978. Born in 1673 George Graham was one of the most eminent of English watch makers. Apprenticed to Thomas Tompion in 1688, he was made free of the Clockmakers Company in 1695, eventually becoming Master in 1722. After completing his apprenticeship he became Tompion s assistant in 1696 and partner circa 1711-1713 before succeeding him after his death. Graham is recorded as using verge escapements in his watches up until circa 1725/26 when he began using cylinder escapements. Of the watches that have come to light in the relative recent past recorded by Graham, the last verge movement is recorded as numbering 5175, with the earliest cylinder movement being number 5182. Graham died in 1751 and is buried alongside Tompion in Westminster Abbey and examples of his work can be found in most major public horological collections. 5cm diameter The movement and apparantly in good condition commensurate with age, the dial of later date and in good condition, the inner and outer cases with some very minor blemishes, the outer case with some very small dents to the rear. View on auctionatrium.com

A Regency brass inlaid mahogany bracket clock, George Lowe, Gloucester, early 19th century, the five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with original anchor escapement and shouldered plates, the 8 inch circular white painted convex Roman numeral dial signed LOWE, GLOUCESTER to centre and within cast brass bezel, the arched case with brass ring handles above gothic tracery pointed arch frets to sides and stylised star and foliate motif inlaid decoration to the ebony line edged front, on moulded plinth base with further brass line decoration and brass ball feet, 44cm high. George Lowe is recorded in Dowler, Graham GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS as working from Westgate Street, Gloucester 1817-42.

An 18th Century Pair Cased Cylinder Pocket Watch, signed Geo Graham, London, No.5479, circa 1740, gilt fusee cylinder movement signed and numbered, dust cover signed and scratched numbered inside, square baluster pillars, diamond endstone, later white enamel dial with Roman numerals, later hands, gilt metal inner case with winding hole shutter, inside numbered 5479 and maker`s mark IW* (John Ward), bow missing, outer case with later covered tortoiseshell (vacant small holes to inside of the case), inside outer case with watch paper printed Barraud`s, 51mm wide George Graham (1673-1751) was one of the greatest watch and clockmakers, and was in partnership with Thomas Tompion in the early 18th century. He invented the cylinder escapement. The serial number on the movement and case dates this watch to circa 1740. The case is marked IW for John Ward, who was making cases at The Boar`s Head Court, Fleet Street, London.

A Victorian silver pocket watch, London 1890, the dial signed James Graham, Carrickfergus, on a silver Albert chain and fob, weight 77 gms

Early 19th century silver fusee verge pair case pocket watch, the movement signed Geo Graham, London, no. 9554, with gilt pierced balance cock, silver regulating dial and turned pillars, the enamel white dial with Roman numerals within matching outer cases, 54mm (outer case a.f)

A 19TH CENTURY MOTHER OF PEARL WATCH HOLDER as a church with circular replacement movement by W. Graham, London. 6ins high.

Thomas Tompion & George Graham. A verge watch movement, signed Tho. Tompion, Geo. Graham, London, no. 4519; pierced and engraved balance cock numbered on the underside, Egyptian pillars, circa 1712-13, dial and dial plate lacking, 41mm dia.

Bates (Keith). The Clockmakers of Northumberland and Durham, 1st ed., 1980, col. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio (limited edition 471/1000, signed by the author), together with Pryce (W.T.R. and Davies, T. Alun), Samuel Roberts Clock Maker. An Eighteenth-Century Craftsman in a Welsh Rural Community, 1st ed., 1985, col. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. mock morocco boards in d.j., 8vo, plus Dowler (Graham), Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers, 1st ed., 1984, num. b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other clock reference including regional makers, mostly G/VG (approx. 40)

An 18th century, english, gilt metal pair cased pocket watch, by Joseph Graham - Durham, for the Turkish market. The chain fusee movement with verge escapement, with pierced and engraved cock plate, signed on the top plate jos Graham Durham. The outer case with tortoiseshell veneer and brass pin head decoration.

Good 18th century English silver pair cased fusee cylinder repeating pocket watch, circa 1747, the plunge repeat movement and dust cover signed Geo Graham, London no. 923, the movement with round pillars, pierced engraved balance cock and silver regulating dial, striking on a bell to the inner case, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and outer five minute Arabic divisions, repousse outer case depicting a Roman Gladiator and figures within a floral scroll border, 48mm

William Wood, Nailsworth, a lantern clock dated 1707, the 30 hour movement with anchor escapement, 6.25inch dial with silvered chapter ring and signed floral engraved centre, rear suspension hoop and spikes, 40cm highThis clock is recorded in Graham Dowler`s Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers, Phillimore (publishers) 1984, p.197-198

A mid Victorian silver cased fusee pocket watch, by George Graham, assayed London 1843.

Regional Clockmaking- five volumes relating to Welsh clocks and clockmakers: Peate, Iorwerth C. CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS IN WALES J. D. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Cardiff, 2nd edition 1960; Linnard, William WALES Clocks & Clockmakers Mayfield Books, Ashbourne 2003; Pryce, W. T. R. and Davies, Alun T. SAMUEL ROBERTS Clockmaker National Museum of Wales 1st edition 1985; Brown, Colin & Mary The CLOCKMAKERS of LLANRWST Bridge Books, Wrexham 1st edition 1993; Parker, Paul (ed.) CLOCKWISE AROUND WALES -A Horological Miscellany Vale Books, Denbigh 1st edition 1995, signed by the author; with three related vols; Dowler, Graham GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS Phillimore, Chichester 1984; Elliott, Douglas J. SHROPSHIRE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS Phillimore, Chichester 1979; Fennell, Geraldine A LIST of IRISH WATCH and CLOCK MAKERS National; Museum of Ireland 1963 (8). Provenance: The Library of John Hooper. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.

J. B. Charcot French Polar Expeditions Medal, by Paul Richer & E. Lindauer, obv. bust of Charcot right, J. B. Charcot; rev. the ship Pourquoi Pas? moored in the ice, Expeditions Polaires Franaises, in exergue, Pourquoi Pas?, 68mm., bronze, unnamed, edge stamped bronze, minor edge bruising, good very fine £150-200 Jean Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), French scientist and polar explorer. Charcot led two French expeditions to Antarctica, on the Franais, 1904-05 and the Pourquoi Pas?, 1908-10. In the latter, he successfully mapped and surveyed some 1,250 miles of coastline and territory of Graham Land, and his maps were still in use twenty-five years later. The scientific data collected on the expedition was to fill 28 volumes. Edwin Swift Balch wrote that Charcotss explorations, occupy a place in the front rank of the most important Antarctic expeditions. No one has surpassed him and few have equaled him as a leader and as a scientific observer. Captain Scott, with whom he trained for their respective polar expeditions, referred to him as the gentleman of the Pole. During 1915 in the Great War, Charcot commanded the British Q-Boat whaler Meg (Z.1). Because of his local knowledge his original brief was to watch the neutral Faeroe Islands but he was eventually based at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. His command was somewhat anomalous - a Frenchman commanding a British ship, under British Admiralty authority, with a largely French crew and flying the tricolour! He was spoken of by the Royal Navy as a would-be Corsair. By the end of the year Charcot resumed command of the Pourquoi Pas? For his services he was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross. Between 1920-36, Charcot was engaged in scientific cruises along the coasts of France, North Atlantic and the Arctic. On 15 September 1936, on an expedition to Greenland, his ship, the Pourquoi Pas?, foundered off the coast of Iceland and Charcot and all but one of his crew drowned. This medal must have been executed before 1933, the year Paul Richer died.

The superb Egyptian War C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel Denzil Hammill, Gordon Highlanders, who led the 1st Gordons in the charge of the Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir, and again commanded the regiment at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai, and in the Nile Expedition The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companions breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1857, makers mark WN for William Neale, complete with swivel-ring bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 4 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut-Col. D. Hammill, 1/Gord. Highrs.); Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels; Khedives Star 1882, very fine or better (4) £3000-3500 Denzil Hammill was born at New Brighton, Cheshire, on 11 July 1840, and was commissioned as an Ensign into the 75th Regiment on 16 January 1858. He rose steadily through the ranks to that of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1880, when he succeeded to the command of the 1st Gordons. He served throughout the Egyptian War of 1882 in command of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, when the Highland Brigade stormed the trenches in the dark, the 1st Gordons between the Camerons and the Black Watch, led by Colonel Hammill and Major Boyes, who jumped their horses over the parapet amidst a hail of fire from the enemies trenches. For his services during the campaign he was mentioned in despatches, made a Companion of the Bath and received the 3rd Class of the Medjidie. Hammill next served in the Soudan Expedition under Sir Gerald Graham in 1884, again in command of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was present at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai; surely soldiers never saw a finer sight than the Gordons presented when, led by Colonel Hammill and Major Boyes, both mounted, they advanced over the rifle pits to storm the battery at Teb. Hammill was again mentioned in despatches and received the brevet of Colonel. He subsequently commanded the 1st Gordons in the Nile Expedition in 1884-85 and with the River Column under Major-General Earle. In addition to his other honours, Hammill received the Egyptian medal with four clasps and the Khedives Bronze Star. He retired and was made Honorary Major-General in October 1885. Sold with full muster details.

A rare George II walnut large bracket clock Windmills & Wightman, London, circa 1735 The five-pillar twin fusee rack and bell striking movement with verge escapement, rise/fall regulation and Hoho bird inhabited foliate engraved backplate signed Windmills & Wightman, LONDON within a circular cartouche to centre, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with false bob and calendar apertures and arched signature plaque to the matted centre, within an applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes and fleur de lys half hour markers, with female mask and scroll cast spandrel applied angles beneath rise/fall regulation dial between dolphin cast mounts to arch, the case with later inverted bell top and foliate pierced frets above husk and scroll carved canted angles with conforming frets and brass handles to sides, on cavetto moulded base with shaped apron, 74cm high. The exact date on which William Wightman joined the celebrated Windmills firm is uncertain however Ordnance Office bills record the partnership in September 1735 (see Neale, J.A. Joseph and Thomas Windmills, Clock and Watch Makers 1671-1737, p.233). Five longcase clocks are recorded by Neale but no bracket, lantern clocks or watches are noted. The reason why this unusually large clock was made is uncertain however another ebonised example (a timepiece with silent pull repeat signed Windmills) is described by Neale and a walnut clock of similar proportions but with a rectangular dial by George Graham was formerly in the Iden collection. It is probable that such clocks were utilised in a semi-public context where the use of a longcase clock would be problematic.

Graham, Wakefield, a Victorian 18 carat gold open face pocket watch, no.35400, circa 1871, the English fusee lever movement with a plain balance cock with a ruby end-stone, and a steel balance, the engine turned and foliate engraved gold dial with black Roman numerals, the foliate engraved case hallmarked London 1871

GRAHAM, LONDON, 18th CENTURY PAIR CASED VERGE WATCH, signed Graham London to the enamelled dial, un-numbered, with pierced cock and engraved foot, with Egyptian pillars, cases not assayed. 41mm

Verge pocket watch movement signed George Graham, London, no. 3939, round pillars with pierced engraved balance cock and silver regulating dial, 44mm

A brass lantern clock by ‘Walter Archer’ Stow-on-the-Wold early 18th century of posted construction with half seconds anchor escapent and countwheel strike on a bell mounted within the domed cage above the dial with foliate engraved centre and applied 6.25in Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised trident half hour markers and signed to the lower edge with original? iron hand armorial frets and on ball feet finials replaced lacking side doors and back plate 35cm high with a pendulum weight and carved oak wall bracket. Walter Archer is recorded in Dowler Graham ‘Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers’ as working in Stow during the early 18th century a very similar clock is illustrated on page 153.

Silver pair cased verge pocket watch, hallmarked London 1828, the movement signed G. Graham, London, no. 129, round pillars, plain outer case, 56mm

A South Gloucestershire line inlaid mahogany eight-day longcase clock dated 1820, the four-pillar rack and bell striking movement with 13.5 inch circular white painted Roman numeral dial signed 'Henry Wilkes, Thornbury & Wootton, 1820' to centre, the case with arched shaped crest over break-arch pedimented hood with fluted Corinthian pilasters, with rectangular trunk door flanked by canted corners beneath, on conforming plinth base with shallow skirt, 211cm high. Henry Wilkes is recorded in Dowler, Graham 'The Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers' as working from Thornbury in the early 19th century.

Dinsdale (N.V.) The Old Clockmakers of Yorkshire, Clapham (Yorkshire), 1946 ~ Bellchambers (J.K.) Somerset Clockmakers, [Wadhurst], 1968 ~ Loomes (Brian) Westmorland Clocks and Clockmakers, Newton Abbot and London, 1974 ~ Dowler (Graham) Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers, Chichester, 1984 ~ Beney (David R.) Beaminster Clocks, Beaminster, 1996, first, second and third mentioned in original wrappers, third and fourth in original boards, dust-jackets; and 10 others, English Clocks and Clockmaking, 8vo (15).