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 [...]

18-CARAT GOLD  OPEN-FACED LEVER WATCH, 9-CARAT  GOLD  OPEN-FACED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH, 18-CARAT GOLD HUNTING-CASED KEY-LESS LEVER WATCH
AN 18-CARAT GOLD OPEN-FACED KEYLESS
LEVER WATCH by Reid & Sons, Neiocastle ироп Тупе,  the three-quarter plate movement with compensation balance, the dial with roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and repeat
signature, 46mm, hallmarked London 1903
A SILVER HUNTING-CASED VERGE WATCH
by Wm Fridgett, [...]

ANTQUE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS. SURVEYING AND NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS. WATCHMAKERS’ TOOLS.
A HAND-TURNED BRASS AND STEEL WATCHMAKERS LATHE with
helical driving gear, three-jaw chuck, tool rest, tool-post with two-way micrometer adjustment and tail stock, on rectangular mahogany base, bed length 17Un. (44cm.), distance
bet-ween centres 8in. (20cm.), English, circa 1860.
A    HAND-TURNED    WATCHMAKERS    ROUNDING-UP    TOOL
mounted on square mahogany base, [...]