The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wrist...

Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 640

Henricus Jones, Londini. Made circa 1680. Fine and rare, walnut veneered table clock with Dutch striking table clock.

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

EUR 13,000 - 20,000 / USD 15,000 - 23,000

Sold: CHF 51,920

C. Bell-top with hinged gilt-brass handle decorated with entwined dolphins, molded cornice, pierced foliate sound frets, front door with chased leaf and flower mounts, step-moulded base, raised on four gilt brass bun feet. D. 6 1/2 -inches with cherub spandrels, finely matted center and calendar aperture, silvered chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, inner quarter-hour track and outer minute track with Arabic five minute numerals. Pierced steel hands. M. 16 x 12.3 cm, gilt brass, ring-turned and rectangular pillars, going and striking trains with fusee and wire, verge escapement, bob pendulum and pierced foliate cock, the hour struck on a large bell and, at the half, the following hour on a small bell, outside numbered countwheel engraved with a rosette, the backplate engraved with a stylised leaf and line border, elaborate finishing to the click springs. Movement signed. Dim. 31.5 x 25 x 17 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3-23

Good

Later
Movement: 3-13*

Good

Slightly damaged

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-02

Good

HANDS Service hands

Notes

Henry Jones An outstanding English clockmaker, working during the last quarter of the seventeenth-century. He was born circa 1642 in Southampton and came to London in August of 1654 when he was apprenticed first to Benjamin Hill and then to the celebrated Edward East. He was Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1663 and served the Company in various capacities, becoming master in 1691. After completing his apprenticeship he continued to work with East until 1672 when he took premises in the City of London, off Fleet Street, in an area known as the Temple. Henry Jones died at the age of sixty-three in 1695.