Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 22nd September 2021
Lot 324
A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK
BY SAMUEL WATSON LONDON
the brass month going movement with six turned and finned pillars, with an anchor escapement striking on a bell, with an outside countwheel, the twelve inch brass dial with a silvered chapter ring, with Roman and Arabic numerals, the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, signed 'Sam Watson London', with gilt boys and crown spandrels, the hood with a blind fret carved frieze, above a trunk door with book matched burr veneers
216.6cm high
Provenance
From a Private Cornish Country Estate.
Catalogue Note
See Britten's 'Old Clocks & Watches and their Makers': Samuel Watson, Coventry and London, horologist, is listed as active between 1649-1710, 'inventor curious piece of clockwork; a clock sold to Charles II, shows the rising and setting of the sun and many other motions.' He is credited with inventing the five-minute repeater.