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A Daniel Quare silver and tortoiseshell pair case verge…
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Sydney
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7-Dec-2020
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A Daniel Quare silver and tortoiseshell pair case verge escapement watch, gilt fullplate movement with fusee, large pierced and engraved balance cock. Verge escapement. The fullplate signed Quare London, with serial number 107. The silver dial with gilt engraved edge and Roman numerals for the hours and outer Arabic minutes, beetle and poker hands. Centre engraved and signed. The inner case signed 'Im' with winding hole. The outer case in tortoiseshell with silver pique riveting at bezel, culminating in a riveted foliate decorative pattern to rear. London, circa 1690. Diameter: 54 mm. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15th December 1983, lot 46, the collection of Dr Trevor Hyde, Sydney, acquired from the above, Literature: for Notes on the significance of Quare, and a similar watch in the Pierpont Morgan collection, New York refer to F.J. Britten, old clocks and watches & their makers, 3rd Ed. This example predates the earliest repeater serial number listed in G. H. Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the world, 2013. Other Notes: Daniel Quare was a watchmaker, known best for inventing an early repeating watch movement in 1680. He was also an early proponent of the use of a minute hand actuated alongside the hour hand. Admitted as a brother, and later master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1708. He famously made a number of important watches for William III and George I. A very similar silver and pique tortoiseshell watch by Quare is in the Pierpont Morgan collection, New York, dating to circa 1690.
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Watches - Pocket & Fob