As happens today, Royal patronage helped the french clock makers 19th century clock-makers. On November last, 1660, Evelyn recorded in his Diary: ‘I went up with some of my Relations to Court, to she we the ithaca clock face m his Majsties cabinet and closet of rarities . . . Here I [...]

Illustrations left and below are of a rare late sixteenth-century Gothic-style iron clock, of early German or Italian origin. Finely-engraved front plate, in mediaeval Italian style, carries a coat of arms, so far unidentified. Eyes in the french black square clock mask at the antique movado pocket watch gold top rock [...]

Values of Antique Clocks
‘Tempus rerum imperator’ is the clockmakers died from mercury motto contained with the very large antique sideboard clock with a glass dome Grant of Arms to the Worshipful Company of Clock-makers in 1671, and undeniably Time is the antique german tambour clock with legs ruler of all things. Xpovos [...]

CARRIAGE CLOCKS: silver-cased Desk Clock, French silver and tortoiseshell Mantel Timepiece, hallmarked London, Carriage Clock with Alarm
A Duverdry & Bloquel Carriage
Timepiece, with white enamelled dial
and cylinder escapement, in gilt-brass
case with scroll handle, 14.5cm.; 53Ain., in
carrying case.
A Carriage Timepiece, with white
enamelled dial and cylinder escapement,
in gilt-brass obis case, 14.5cm.
A champleve enamel Carriage
Timepiece, with gilt matted and [...]

A French ebonised Mantel Clock, A German beechwood Bracket Clock, circa 1900, A German stained oak and mahogany Wall Clock
A German beechwood Bracket Clock, circa 1900, the eight-day movement striking on one gong, with gilded spandrels, silvered chapter ring, in a carved architectural case with bun
feet, one missing, 53cm.; 21 in., key and pendulum.
A German [...]

bracelet Watch by Baume and Mercier,  gilt-metal key-wind open-faced Pocket Watch, silver key-wind demi-hunting cased Pocket Watch
A lady’s bracelet Watch by Baume and Mercier, Geneve, the signed circular dial with gilt Arabic and dot numeral indicators, on a two-row link bracelet of brick link design, with a fold-over clasp
An enamelled Watch-cum-Cigar
Cutter, circa, the rectangular gilt
dial [...]

ANTIQUE CARRIAGE CLOCKS: brass-cased Carriage Alarm Clock, gilt-brass Alarm Timepiece, brass-cased musical repeating Alarm Clock
A brass-cased Carriage Timepiece,
the white enamelled dial indistinctly signed, the movement with lever escapement, in a shaped case with fluted columns,
A brass Carriage Timepiece, with enamelled dial, the movement by Duverdry & Bloquel with cylinder escapement, in plain case,
A brass Carriage [...]

19th Century Clocks
The 19th century saw many changes in the craft of clockmaking. The demand was growing for a cheaper priced clock for the masses instead of costly possessions for the &lite. The French in the preceeding century had realized that sub-division of labour and specialization could achieve a greater output without necessarily destroying the [...]