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A rare mock-pendulum…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
22-Oct-2024
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Description:
A rare mock-pendulum silver-cased pocket watch, maker Joseph Antram English Circa 1710 4.8 cm diameter, 5.8 cm case diameter, 6.2 cm hight of case. A rare mock-pendulum silver-cased pocket watch, maker Joseph Antram. English Circa 1710. Single silver cased watch, open face. Square hinge to bezel, short pendant, round loose bow. Consular case plain, not hallmarked. Silver champleve dial which does not fill the whole of the top-plate, the bottom part of the. dial has a cut-away half-moon aperture through which a mock pendulum appears. Beside it is. a three-quarter moon aperture exposing the key-operated regulator dial. Raised Roman hour. numerals, outer Arabic minute numerals, the centre with a. symmetrical foliate design. Signed below the mock pendulum "Antram London". Blued steel. beetle and poker hands. The case opens at 3 o'clock, and the bezel holding a domed glass is hinged at 12 o'clock; the. movement is also hinged at 12 o'clock allowing it to swing out of the case. The back of the. movement is in fact the top plate, the movement being reversed so that the balance wheel, which forms the mock pendulum, can be seen through the dial. Winding spindle protrudes. through the top plate which is covered by a thin brass cover with concentric circles. Fusee drive, verge escapement. Egyptian pillars, ornate fusee stop. Circular rim enclosing the. backplate decorated with a repeating foliate pattern. Reference: Britten says Antram was apprenticed to Charles Gretton on 17th January 1697, free of the Clockmakers Company on 7th October 1706, worked until 1720 and died in 1723. He was. watch and clock maker to King George I, there is a record of a long case clock ca 1700 and a. watch ca 1720. There is a pair-case striking watch in the Frankel Collection and a gold. repousse in the Arts Museum, Prague, by Antram. An astronomical watch by this maker sold Christies Geneva 20–12 MAY 2003 lot 4 for 11,500 CHF ( approx AUD$20,000). Provenance: Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould, London, in December 1972 for 500 British pounds. Adjusted and cleaned by Camerer Cuss and co., London. 1st December 1975, at a cost of 29. British pounds. Dimensions: 4.8 cm diameter, 5.8 cm case diameter, 6.2 cm hight of case.
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