Single Fusee Skeleton Timepiece by Richard Webster

Name: Single Fusee Skeleton Timepiece by Richard Webster
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1159567
Availability: SoldOut

19th century

Sold by Chalfont Clocks

Description

This highly decorative skeleton timepiece signed Webster, London has a single fusee eight day movement regulated by a brass cylinder pendulum. With a very finely made deadbeat escapement and sixty tooth escape wheel. The silvered roman dial is intersected with a subsidiary seconds dial of unusual design. The plates are very finely pierced in a Gothicized Arabesque pattern of foliate scrollwork mounted on an ebonised base with its original glass dome finished in a brocade cord to protect the edge of the glass.

Dating from circa 1830 this clock was made buy Richard Webster of the famed family of clockmakers that can be traced back to William Webster who was apprenticed to Thomas Tompion “The Father of English Clockmaking”. Richard Webster, the second in a series of Richards, who moved the family business from 26 Exchange Alley to 43 Cornhill around 1813. The company traded from 43 Cornhill and later 74 Cornhill.

Richard Webster was chronometer maker to the Admiralty and to the East India Company. Under Richard Webster II the business seemingly went from strength to strength, at one point occupying two premises – at 74 Cornhill and at nearby 3 Birchin Lane. The Webster name was so well known by now that the surname alone would suffice when signing clock faces.

Richard Webster is listed in Brian Loomes’ “Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World – 21st century edition” as working between 1810 and 1840

Simon C. Davidson, “Box Chronometers for India 1800-1936,” Antiquarian Horology, no.4, vol.35, December 2014

Jeremy Evans, Jonathan Carter & Ben Wright, Thomas Tompion 300 Years (Stroud: Water Lane Publishing, 2013).

42cm H x 25cm W x 14cm D (with dome).

Physical Dimensions

Height

42cm (16.54")

Width

25cm (9.84")

Depth

14cm (5.51")

Declaration

Chalfont Clocks has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA1159567

Dealers Internal Reference

317

Dealers Notes

All of our clocks come with a 2 year guarantee, all of our clocks are overhauled and sympathetically restored, all of our clocks are authentic and supplied in good original condition.

Description

Dating from circa 1830 this clock was made buy Richard Webster of the famed family of clockmakers that can be traced back to William Webster who was apprenticed to Thomas Tompion “The Father of English Clockmaking”.

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Richard Webster, the second in a series of Richards, who moved the family business from 26 Exchange Alley to 43 Cornhill around 1813.

Chalfont Clocks

The company traded from 43 Cornhill and later 74 Cornhill.

fig 1. Single Fusee Skeleton Timepiece By Richard Webster — fig 1. Single Fusee Skeleton Timepiece by Richard Webster

Richard Webster was chronometer maker to the Admiralty and to the East India Company. Under Richard Webster II the business seemingly went from strength to strength, at one point occupying two premises – at 74 Cornhill and at nearby 3 Birchin Lane. The Webster name was so well known by now that the surname alone would suffice when signing clock faces.