Main dial: bitty corners with gold wheatsheaf; gold chapter ring, early RR engine (not rocket). Hemispheres: early RR engine. False plate: Walker & Hughes.
Main dial: painting of churches and white houses corners, no borders. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: green background, fruit in gold cornucopias corner; gold doves with rays and gold edges humps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: numbers in gold with black outline, blue chapter ring; roses in modified fan corners, green background; maps had to be replaced. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Moon faces: quite round-eyed, pink cheeks, small mouths, pleasant expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; large sheep on bank.
Main dial: Roman numbers in gold with black outlines; blue chapter ring; four-continents corners, waterside, scenes hemispheres. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: rather round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreamy expressions. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; cottage on a bluff.
Main dial: polyanthus corners on green background. Hemispheres: framed maps.
Main dial: attempt at Walker & Hughes, bitty style corners, garlands in humps. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son.
Main dial: dark background, pink flowers corners ("H. Foster Lpool 1848-51" had been put on). Hemispheres: doves and worlds, gold edging, very sketchy.
Main dial: navy blue corners with pink and white roses; two ruins centre with funny gold crosses; bird under date aperture. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son.
Main dial: not a large dial, four-seasons ladies corners. Hemispheres: maps were replaced. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: eyes close together, red cheeks, small mouths similar face in slide 1311 breakarch. Moon scenes: swan on riverside; boat going wing and wing.
Main dial: very poor condition, thin ground, extensive rust damage; pink roses, yellow daisies, blue flowers, repeat corners; man with gun and pheasant breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: very red-cheeked. Moon scenes: log-like ship; square Georgian house, blue roof.
Main dial: off-white, watercolour-type roses, gold band.
Main dial: fan and garland corner; bad blowtorch damage; heavy moon arch. Hemispheres: Hobson maps. False plate: separate slide of false plate. Rather rare dial maker, W.M. Wood, but Hobson maps.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white four-seasons corners; gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic above equator.
Main dial: off-white, convolvulous corners with primulas; farm scene breakarch.
Main dial: blue background to corners with pink shells, auriculas and upside down tulip corners; beautifully painted winter scene in breakarch.
Main dial: green background; fruit corners; nice scene with bridge and cottage breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: cottages corners; river scene breakarch.
Main dial: turquoise corners with fat pink and yellow roses; bird in centre.
Images of dials made by Samuel Baker and Samuel Baker & Son, Birmingham dial makers active around 1826–50.
Images of dials made by Francis Byrne, a Birmingham dial maker active there in 1772–77 and in London in the 1780s and 1790s.
Images of dials made by William Finnemore, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1810s–1850s, and one image of a dial by Finnemore & Son.
Images of dials made by Richard Hipkiss, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1780s–1840s
Images of dials made by Edward Hobson and E. Hobson & Son, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1830s.
Images of dials made by the Nicholas brothers, Birmingham factors and dial makers active in the 1790s–1820.
Images of dials made by N. Porter, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1810.
Images of dials made by Wilkes & Baker, Birmingham dial makers active c1810.
Names include David Ramsay, William Partridge, Edward East, Thomas Tompion and others.
Names include Thomas Herbert, Joseph Autram, Richard Vick, Francis Robinson, Thomas Cartwright, Benjamin Gray, George Lindsay, John Ellicot, Benjamin Vulliamy, and Thomas Mudge. Includes a few pages at back on earlier sources.
Handwritten, made by Eileen Bunt. The original book was donated to Guildhall Library on the death of its owner and is held there under ref. CLC/B/227/MS23726/001.
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
Gives clockmakers' names and dates, slide numbers, and brief description of dials
This collection comprises material created and collected by the Bristol clockmaker Henry Draisey. It contains notebooks, drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, glass plate negatives and printed material (books, newspaper cuttings, catalogues, price lists, etc.).
Sin títuloThis series contains promotional publications produced by watch companies as well as watch and jewellery trade fairs: Baselworls and Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH). These include printed material, CD-Roms, photographs and slides.
Baselworld Watch and Jewellery Show was a global trade show of the international watch, jewellery and gem industry, organized each spring in the city of Basel, Switzerland, at the Messeplatz.
Includes the following CD-Roms: "Audemars Piguet mounts a challenge in the America's Cup: 1851-2000 defying the sea, defying time" and "When the Royal Navy and Swiss mountains join forces: The Royal Oak legend".
Photographs show Ref. 1009 and Ref. 5038 gold watches sold in the 1800s.
Also includes an article on the company's history.
Also includes cover letter from Time Products.
The exhibition took place on 1-14 June 2001 at Jaeger-Le Coultre boutique in Old Bond Street, London. File also includes correspondence and an invitation.
Includes the "SIHH 2003" CD-Rom.
One of the photographs shows the newly opened production facility in Glashütte.
Also includes cover letter. Includes drawings of movements and mechanisms.
Includes drawings of movements and mechanisms.
Celebrating 160 years of the company's watchmaking tradition and 125-year history of the brand.
Also includes cover letter.
Also includes a press cutting relating to Patek Philippe's Star Calibre 2000 watch (The Mail on Sunday, 8th October 2000, p. 45).
Also includes unofficial printouts of a time zone map and a catalogue page with Ref. 5110 watches.