A rare George I/II brass pedestal or monstrance verge timepiece movement and dial William Webster London, circa 1725 The four pillar single fusee movement with plates measuring 5.25 by 2.75 inches and verge escapement for regulation by short bob pendulum, the mechanism enclosed within a rectangular gilt cast brass cover with glazed apertures to sides and back, the 4.125 inch wide brass break-arch dial with false bob aperture to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer minute track, the lower margin with concave sided section applied with fan-shaped signature plate engraved W:m Webster, Exchange Alley, London and fitted with ‘V’-shaped brace to rear to allow the timepiece to be supported via a threaded screw at the base, (lacking spandrels, arch mount, hands, pendulum, backcock and most of glass to rear cover), 20cm (8ins) high excluding screw. William Webster senior is recorded in Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed to Thomas Tompion and gaining his Freedom from The Clockmakers' Company in 1710, he initially worked as journeyman to Tompion later setting up business in Exchange Alley; he died in 1734. William Webster junior was apprenticed to his father in 1727 gaining his Freedom in 1734, he was appointed Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1755. He was a fine maker who very much maintained his father's standards in his work. The current lot is a particularly rare model which would have originally been fitted to some form of free-standing pedestal stand which may have taken the form of a column or even a figure. In effect it is an English version of a ‘monstrance’ timepiece which were a popular product of the 16th and 17th century German Renaissance workshops many examples of which are illustrated in Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst von THE BOOK OF OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES pages 146-51 (Figs. 118-22).
A rare George I/II brass pedestal or monstrance verge timepiece movement and dial William Webster London, circa 1725 The four pillar single fusee movement with plates measuring 5.25 by 2.75 inches and verge escapement for regulation by short bob pendulum, the mechanism enclosed within a rectangular gilt cast brass cover with glazed apertures to sides and back, the 4.125 inch wide brass break-arch dial with false bob aperture to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer minute track, the lower margin with concave sided section applied with fan-shaped signature plate engraved W:m Webster, Exchange Alley, London and fitted with ‘V’-shaped brace to rear to allow the timepiece to be supported via a threaded screw at the base, (lacking spandrels, arch mount, hands, pendulum, backcock and most of glass to rear cover), 20cm (8ins) high excluding screw. William Webster senior is recorded in Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed to Thomas Tompion and gaining his Freedom from The Clockmakers' Company in 1710, he initially worked as journeyman to Tompion later setting up business in Exchange Alley; he died in 1734. William Webster junior was apprenticed to his father in 1727 gaining his Freedom in 1734, he was appointed Master of the Clockmakers' Company in 1755. He was a fine maker who very much maintained his father's standards in his work. The current lot is a particularly rare model which would have originally been fitted to some form of free-standing pedestal stand which may have taken the form of a column or even a figure. In effect it is an English version of a ‘monstrance’ timepiece which were a popular product of the 16th and 17th century German Renaissance workshops many examples of which are illustrated in Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst von THE BOOK OF OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES pages 146-51 (Figs. 118-22).
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