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29 November 2023 | starting at 14:00 GMT
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Breguet No. 759. A very fine silver hump-backed carriage clock with perpetual calendar, moonphase, grande sonnerie striking and alarm, sold to Ettore Bugatti in 1931. In the original fitted box, with certificate No. 3278 Breguet, Paris, number 759 4Breguet No. 759. A very fine silver hump-backed carriage clock with perpetual calendar, moonphase, grande sonnerie striking and alarm, sold to Ettore Bugatti in 1931. In the original fitted box, with certificate No. 3278 Breguet, Paris, number 759 4. Sold for £216,300 inc. premium
A late 17th century olivewood, boxwood and ebonised parquetry and oyster inlaid longcase clock with 10 inch dial. Together with receipts regarding its sale by Walter J. Iden to the vendors grandfather in 1942. Further accompanied by a letter from Iden offering to buy it back again in 1944. Thomas Tompion, LondonA late 17th century olivewood, boxwood and ebonised parquetry and oyster inlaid longcase clock with 10 inch dial. Together with receipts regarding its sale by Walter J. Iden to the vendors grandfather in 1942. Further accompanied by a letter from Iden offering to buy it back again in 1944. Thomas Tompion, London. Sold for £114,700 inc. premium
A remarkable late 19th century French 'Pendule Geo-Cosmographique' The globe signed E. Bartaux, Rue de Serpente 25, Paris.A remarkable late 19th century French 'Pendule Geo-Cosmographique' The globe signed E. Bartaux, Rue de Serpente 25, Paris.. Sold for £8,320 inc. premium
A remarkable early 20th century mechanical display timepiece with calendar, moonphase and tidal dials, all hand painted on seven white duck eggs Invented and made by C.W.Croydon of Ipswich. Entilted 'We are Seven'A remarkable early 20th century mechanical display timepiece with calendar, moonphase and tidal dials, all hand painted on seven white duck eggs Invented and made by C.W.Croydon of Ipswich. Entilted 'We are Seven'. Sold for £3,200 inc. premium
A good late 19th century French lacquered brass repeating carriage clock with enamel panels by H Doublet E. Maurice & Co, No.8585A good late 19th century French lacquered brass repeating carriage clock with enamel panels by H Doublet E. Maurice & Co, No.8585. Sold for £2,304 inc. premium

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A late 17th century ebonised longcase clock with ten inch dial. John Wise (Senior), London
A late 17th century olivewood, boxwood and ebonised parquetry and oyster inlaid longcase clock with 10 inch dial. Together with receipts regarding its sale by Walter J. Iden to the vendors grandfather in 1942. Further accompanied by a letter from Iden offering to buy it back again in 1944. Thomas Tompion, London
A very fine and small second quarter of the 18th century brass-bound ebonised quarter repeating table clock James Snelling, London
An 18th century brass bound, ebonised, triple-pad top quarter chiming table clock with enamel dials Aynsworth Thwaites, Clerkenwell, London
An early 18th century ebonised table clock with pull quarter repeat Christopher Gould, London
A 19th century steel engraving of Thomas Tompion John Smith
A late 17th century walnut and inlaid longcase clock with 10.25inch dial. Charles Gretton, Fleet Street, London
A rare mid 18th century walnut quarter repeating table clock Ellicott, London
A good 19th century mahogany floorstanding regulator with off-set winding Thomas Armstrong & Bro., Manchester, No. 470
A good late 19th/early 20th century walnut regulator J. W. Benson, 25 Old Bond St., London
A fine late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with enamel dials Matthew Dutton, London
A late 17th century/early 18th century silver-mounted tortoiseshell-veneered quarter-repeating table clock with Iden Collection Provenance George Etherington, London
A late 17th century marquetry inlaid walnut longcase clock Henry Thornton, London
A walnut table clock The movement late 17th century, the dial and case later
A late 17th century basket top table clock with pull quarter repeat. The case and movement possibly associated. The movement signed Jonathan Lowndes in ye Pall Mall
A most interesting late 17th century ebonised single-handed alarm timepiece Peter Walker
A late 17th century brass lantern clock with verge escapement Joseph Williamson, London
A rare Austrian brass hexagonal repeating table clock, 18th century with alterations Johan Hoffman, Tyrnau
A rare 18th century French musical lantern clock Jacqus Romain, Rouen
A rare first half of the 17th century first period "potato head" lantern clock with rare half-hour strike Unsigned
A good mid-late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with deadbeat escapement and wheels of six crossings out throughout John Hartley, York
A rare late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with deadbeat escapement John Smith, York
A fine late 17th century burr walnut longcase clock Joseph Windmills, London
An interesting 17th century lantern clock frame and dial, now with a 19th century quarter striking chain fusee movement Henry Ireland at the Dial, Lothbury
A late 17th century ebony basket top table clock with later dial The movement by Henry Jones, London
A good mid 18th century brass-bound ebonised quarter chiming table clock William Webster, Exchange Alley, London
A good late 18th century mahogany six-tune musical table clock playing on ten bells and hammers Bolton & Fothergill, Birmingham
An impressive mid 18th century Dutch walnut quarter striking automata longcase clock with moonhpase, alarm and annual calendar Antoni van Oostrom, Amsterdam
A Dutch table clock with moonphase, alarm and Dutch-striking system on two bells and hammers, 18th century and later A. Van Oostrum, Amsterdam
A late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with deadbeat escapement Alexander Cumming, London
A very fine and rare early 19th century mahogany striking regulator with exceptional movement Robert Hardy
A good mid 19th century eight-day brass-bound mahogany marine chronometer Abraham Jackson, Liverpool. No. 164/9229
A 19th century brass bound rosewood two-day marine chronometer Morris Tobias, 31 Minories London, No. 801
A fine and very rare mid-19th century brass-bound mahogany two-day marine chronometer with Universal compensation, modified detent escapement and exhibition provenance. Thomas Adams 36 Lombard Street, London Number 4242
An extremely rare and fine mid-19th century brass-bound rosewood two-day marine chronometer with Hartnup balance. Previously with the Time Museum, and more recently exhibited at Prescot Museum William B Crisp, London, Number 381
A rare and very interesting early 20th century mahogany regulator with Parker's patent William Bruford & Son Ltd., Exeter and Eastbourne.
A good early 20th century Continental weight driven regulator. Unsigned
A mid-19th century walnut marine barometer with Improved Sympiesometer. Blair, Bristol
A rare 19th century mahogany wheel barometer with enamel timepiece J. Fagioli, 5 Great Bath Street, Clerkenwell. London
A mahogany marine barometer Unsigned
A second quarter of the 20th century chrome and glass Art Deco style Atmos timepiece Atmos, J. L. Reutter, France. Numbered on the movement bar 4116.
1st edition of Gould's magnum opus with associated Gould correspondence
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R.T.Gould's personal pocket watch
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Gould's personal annotated copies of the 1st and 2nd editions of Oddities
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Longitude: Unique ephemera from the Granada film (2000)
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