Lot 5
John Bushmann. A fine and rare early 18th century pair case calendar pocket watch Numbered 1082, London Hallmark for 1709
10 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistJohn Bushmann. A fine and rare early 18th century pair case calendar pocket watch
Numbered 1082, London Hallmark for 1709
Full plate fusee movement with pierced and engraved winged balance cock, silvered regulation, hybrid pillars, gold dial with Roman hour chapter and outer Arabic five minute divisions, engraved foliate centre, later hands, round calendar aperture at the centre, polished round numbered cases, with IW possibly for John Willoughby, with personal engraved intials on the bow, dial and movement signed
55mm.
Full plate fusee movement with pierced and engraved winged balance cock, silvered regulation, hybrid pillars, gold dial with Roman hour chapter and outer Arabic five minute divisions, engraved foliate centre, later hands, round calendar aperture at the centre, polished round numbered cases, with IW possibly for John Willoughby, with personal engraved intials on the bow, dial and movement signed
55mm.
Footnotes
Johannes Bushmann travelled to England from Augsberg in the late 17th century. He was made a freeman in the clockmaker's company in 1692, and assistant in 1720.
John Willoughby, himself apprenticed in the clockmaker's company to Thomas How, became a freeman in 1687. He was known to have made other watch cases for Bushman.
See David Thomson's, 'Watches' of the British Museum Press, Pages 58-59.