A good late 17th/early 18th century silver-mounted turtleshell-veneered table clock with pull quarter repeatG.Etherington, LondonThe caddy top surmounted by a silver handle with central foliate and bud knop, over a moulded cornice, and four rectangular repousse side panels depicting flowers in an urn and bust portraits, on cast squat ball and claw feet, both front and rear doors with applied escutcheon plates.The 6.25 inch square brass dial with subsidiaries in the top corners for rise-and-fall regulation and strike/silent over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed between V and VII, with blued steel hands the matted centre with chamfered mock pendulum and date apertures decorated with characteristic decorative ringed detailing, the lower corners with winged cherubs spandrels. The twin fusee movement with six knopped and ringed pillars and a seventh plain but latched uniting the two plates, the backplate deliberately larger in order to fill as much of the rear of the case as possible and signed within a flat oval palm-frond reserve amid a symmetrical pattern of foliate scrolls and strapwork. The going train terminating in a verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation effected via a shaped steel lever on a rack and pinion set-up on the backplate, the pendulum with hook fixing to the top and terminating in a lenticular bob, with unusual shaped steel securing bracket. The strike train sounding the hours on a single bell, with pull quarter repeat sounding the quarters on a run of three bells and hammers. Ticking, striking and repeating. Together with a case key. 33.5cms (13ins) high (3)Footnotes:George Etherington was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1684 and Master in 1709. He attended until 1720 and supposedly died in 1729.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * Y* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A large 19th century lacquered brass skeleton clock with lever escapement and original domeSigned on the bell J. Taylor, 6 Silver Street, WakefieldThe elaborate scroll frame united by seven turned tapering pillars and surmounted by the signed bell, mounted on a wooden base with tooled red leather centre embossed with a gilt 'S', the 7.25 inch skeletonised Roman dial with dotted minute outer track and blued-steel trefoil hands, the twin chain fusee movement with English lever escapement mounted above XII, rack striking the hour on a blued steel coiled gong mounted on a block stamped F.D., and striking the half-hours on the bell. Running and striking, with trip repeat for the hour. Together with the large original glass dome (49cms high) and a large brass winding key. 51.5cms (20ins) high (3)Footnotes:A Joseph Taylor was active in Wakefield in 1851-71.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and very rare early 19th century English mahogany eight-day marine chronometer with unique sprung bowl designJames Hatton, London, number 402 The case:flame-veneered mahogany two-part case with sprung lid activated by a brass button to the front and two small leaf springs below, the base section with shaped vacant brass escutcheon plate and drop handles, baize lined. Opening to reveal the gimbal ring mounted at opposite corners on substantial brass brackets, with securing lock to the top right hand corner, the ring set to it's inner face with a pair of nickel-silver tapering springs mounted opposite each another at II and VIII, each approximately 20 inches in length and winding around the bowl approximately 375 degrees to terminate in a shaped foot secured to the bowl by three brass screws. The interior of the bowl scratch-numbered 402 and with shaped weight plate, the underside fitted with a sprung winding arbor cover engraved 'Wind up to the Left hand Once A Week.'The dial:4.75 inch signed and numbered silvered dial with outer minute track marked in five minute intervals enclosing the Roman hours intersected at VI by the large subsidiary running seconds dial marked in Arabic tens, the power-reserve sector set below XII marked 1-7, signed across the centre 'Jas. Hatton, London, 402', with blued steel hands throughout (the minute tapering, the hour of pierced spear-form). Secured via three latched dial feet to the movement. The movement:of Hatton's double frame construction and of eight day duration. The barrel, chain fusee and centre wheel set within a shaped frame united by three turned pillars screwed front and back, the barrel with set up ratchet on a substantial shaped cock over cut away sections to offer a view of the mainspring; the remainder of the train set in another smaller shaped plate united by three square-section pillars, the freesprung cut and compensated bimetallic balance with keystone-shaped weights and blued steel helical spring to an Earnshaw type detent escapement. The case 21.5cms (8.5ins) wide. Footnotes:The remarkable pair of tapering springs carry the weight of the bowl, movement, bezel and glass and offer a good deal of shock absorption against any sudden surge or prolonged movement. Another example, number 316 is in the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris.The celebrated George Margetts (1748-1804) took James Hatton (c.1776-c.1824) as an apprentice. Hatton was no run-of-the-mill pupil the high level of his work, and his innovative approach to design, can be seen in products he jointly signed with Margetts, as well as those finished under his own name. It was almost certainly James Hatton who in about 1800 introduced the double frame construction for his eight day timekeepers. Although Margetts was said to have made improvements to the lever escapement at this time, it is far more likely it was also work done in his name by James Hatton. Hatton was a great asset to Margett's business, principally in the production of watches and pocket chronometers. From 1810 to 1824 he had premises at 4 St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. James Hatton worked from St Michael's Alley, Cornhill from 1799 to 1812. A comprehensive account of his life and work can be found in Betts, J. (2017) Marine Chronometers at Greenwich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.230 ff.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FINE AND VERY RARE ENGLISH PATINATED BRONZE CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH TWIN POWER RESERVES, CALENDAR AND THERMOMETERNicole Nielsen & Co. Limited, Soho Square, LondonThe case with ribbed handle over a bevelled glass inspection panel, a repeat button set to the right, and another to the left, over silvered sides on a plinth base with applied edge, the solid rear door with three shuttered winding squares marked 'Set Hands' 'Wind' and 'Wind' the signed rectangular one-piece silvered dial with minute track enclosing the Roman numerals and twin subsidiaries for power reserve for both the going- and striking- trains marked 'Down' and 'Up', the right hand side is set with a silvered panel incorporating a mercury thermometer (it's bulb hidden from view in the base) reading against Reamur and Fahrenhiet scales, each marked for the strategic temperatures of 'Freezing', 'Temperate', Summer Heat' and 'Blood Heat'; the left hand panel in the same silvered finish, but this set with a vertical day-of-the-week column adjustable from the rotating button above, beside each day is a selection of dates to allow for any day and date combination. The twin chain fusee movement united by five pillars with blued steel screws and collets through the backplate, with maintaining power to the going train terminating in a frosted gilt platform escapement with cut and compensated bimetallic balance with gold timing screws, over-coiled blued steel spring and lever escapement with detailed regulation arc to the rear, the strike train with rack strike the full hour on the hour and a single blow every half-hour on a blued steel coiled gong (the block marked G.B. in an oval), repeating the hours on depression of the right hand button. Running, striking and repeating. 19cms (7.5ins) high.Footnotes:Adolphe Nicole established his watchmaking business in London in 1837 and went on to play a central role in 19th century horology; he invented two types of Constant Force Escapement as well as a new split seconds hand for timing two events simultaneously on a watch. In 1844 he patented a keyless winding system, the manufacturing rights later passing to Dent to whom he supplied many fine movements. When Charles Frodsham died in 1871, Nielsen became a director of Charles Frodsham & Co. Ltd. In 1876 he took his son-in-law Emile Nielsen into partnership and within four years they were established in Soho Square, London. Such was the acclaim of the workshop, The Horological Journal visited and published an article in June 1889. The clocks and watches surviving today often feature the most complex functions including their legendary tourbillons, in particular the series of remarkable silver hump-back travel clocks made just before the First War. Like the current lot, these feature the twin up-and-down power reserve subsidiaries on the main dial. Comparative literature:Allix & Bonnert (1984) Carriage Clocks, Their history and Development. Woodbridge, ACC, page 291.Roberts, D. (1993) Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, page 327.Fanelli, J., Terwilliger, Ch. (1987) A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks. Bronxville: Clock Trade Enterprises, page 189.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Cartier. An early, rare and large platinum manual wind rectangular wristwatchModel: Grande Tank CintréeDate: Circa 1930Movement: 19-jewel manual wind, adjusted to 8 positionsDial: Cream, black Roman numerals, black inner minute track, blued steel handsCase: Brushed and polished curved rectangular, back secured by 4 screws, cabochon set crown, No.23259, 27787, 05400, 8619Strap/Bracelet: Black leatherBuckle/Clasp: 18K rose gold folding clasp, stamped 0423Signed: Dial signed Cartier, movement signed European Watch & Clock CoSize: 23mm x 47mmFootnotes:The Tank Cintrée entered into the Cartier Tank family in 1921 back when Cartier were at the early stages of wristwatch design. At this time there were no rules and the norm of a circular dial was not entrenched. Cartier investigated and experimented with many versions based on the Tank which they already knew was popular. The Tank Cintrée was an extreme example of these investigations and although it seems acceptable now, the long rectangular shape and the curved case back conforming to the wrist was seen as outlandish at the time. It was therefore made in just a small quantity but remains one of the best known designs from the founding years of wristwatch making.Platinum was a fairly new material being incorporated into wristwatch design offering a bright silver colour without being susceptible to tarnish like silver or dulling in colour like the white gold available at the time. It makes it an enduring zeitgeist of the period that looks equally as stunning and eye catching today as it was when it was first introduced.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine French Louis XVI style silver gilt / vermeil dessert or ice cream flatware set comprising of twelve spoons and two serving knives. Engraved and gilded. Hallmarked R & C probably for Risler & Carre, and the Minerva 1 mark for 950/1000 fineness, c1900s. Weight 620g, the spoon L16cm. (14) Provenance: N. Cambalios collection.
A lot comprising a silver gilt & ruby glass double ended scent bottle, London 1933, 14 cm long, two silver topped scent bottles, an agate horn shaped scent bottle, two horn shaped glass scent bottles & a cylindrical silver scent bottle, Birmingham 1896 4.5 cm high (7) Condition Report: Available upon request
A 9ct rose gold albertina with a 9ct and silver Masonic ball charm (approx 1.2cm diameter), weight together 16.3gms Condition Report: Chain length doubled (folded in two) 18cm, Hallmarked to every link, end links clasps and 'T ' Bar. Chain in good order, clasps both work. Ball;- the cross rolls out smoothly with a bit of resistance, fits together tightly. .
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