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In many cases, particular lots can be examined in advance by private appointment. (a) Public Preview: All property is available for inspection by public preview during the day of auction. The contract for the sale of the property is therefore made between the seller and the buyer. Keith Bates is an amateur horologist who has been researching clocks, watches and chronometers and their makers for over 30 years.Terms and Conditions for John Moran AuctioneersĮxcept as otherwise stated, John Moran Auctioneers Moran's) acts as agent for the seller. Samuel Watson’s wife Elizabeth died and was buried at St Mary le Strand Church on 13th April 1707 and Samuel returned to Coventry about 1715. Louis must have died young because Threlkeld married her sister Lydie on at St Martins in the Fields, Westminster. Samuel Watson’s daughter, Louis married the clockmaker William Threlkeld, of the Strand, on /6 and their son William was baptised on the same day. Whoever gives notice of the said Clock to Sam Watson, watchmaker, near the Bagnio in Long Acre, so as it may be had again shall have two Guineas Reward.” One of Watson’s table clocks was stolen and advertised in the London Gazette of 27 July 1696:- “ Lost 16the June out of a House near Red Lion Square a Repeating Table Clock in black Ebony Case and Cap, with Brass Furnature upon it, showing the hour and minutes, striking at the end of every hour and repeating the quarters upon two bells when pulled having two Pendulums, a longer that moves behind, and shorter that moves in semi-circle on the upper part of the Dial Plate the back Plate is engraved Samuel Watson London. He seemed to specialise in table (spring) clocks but he did make some longcase clocks and a number of watches. Watson was the leading astronomical clockmaker at the end of 17th century but he did make other clocks, including fine tables clock (see fig 4). as a brother on 29 Sept 1690 and had set up his business in Long Acre, where he is recorded paying water rates for 1692. No children are recorded for the couple so that Watson may have worked elsewhere before 1682 when a son Samuel was baptised at St Michaels Church, Coventry on 1 June 1682. He married Elizabeth Milburn at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry on 8 April 1672. Samuel junior would have been apprenticed, possibly in Coventry from 1664-1671. 1650/51, son of Samuel and Sibbell Watson. Samuel Watson was baptised at Kingsbury, War, sixteen miles north west of Coventry, on 15 Feb. With the help of Mr Philip Southall, we have been able to piece together more information about this extremely talented clockmaker and mathematician. Mr Lloyd knew very little about the clockmaker’s life and origins but he greatly admired his work and thought he was among the finest clockmakers to have worked in this country. The same writer wrote an article for the same journal in December 1948 about the two astronomical clocks Watson made for Sir Isaac Newton and are now in the possession of the Clockmakers’ Company. H Alan Lloyd described the Windsor, astronomical clock in an article he wrote for the Horological Journal in December 1942.

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