Daniel Delander No.5. A rare walnut longcase clock with duplex escapement, London, circa 1715

10¾-inch dial with mask and leaf spandrels, silvered chapter ring, finely matted centre with seconds dial and date aperture, signed D Delander, No.5 on an oval reserve, the movement with five ringed and knopped pillars, the duplex escapement with small impulse wheel within the plates and large locking wheel outside the backplate, bolt and shutter maintaining power, rack and bell striking, the pendulum with brass rod, lenticular bob and graduated rating nut, the case with ogee moulded cresting, brass-capped hood pilasters, the trunk door and panelled plinth veneered with well figured wood, the sides crossbanded and divided into panels

Dial in good condition but may benefit from a clean, good original hands. Movement in good original condition but needs a clean. Case is rather dry some minor losses to mouldings, brass caps missing from both back pilasters, veneer loss and horizontal crack to left side of plinth, other old scuffs and marks throughout. With pendulum, two brass-cased weights, winder and two case keys.
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Daniel Delander was born in 1678 and apprenticed in 1692 to Charles Halsted but later transferred to Thomas Tompion. He was freed in July 1699 but appears to have continued his association with Tompion's workshop, probably as a journeyman. Tompion died in 1713 and in 1714 Delander moved from Devere Court to premises between the two Temple Gates in Fleet Street.  He died in 1733.
Delander appears to have invented the two-wheel duplex escapement as used on some of his longcase clocks.  He seems to have numbered only his duplex escapement clocks and it is likely that he conceived the idea circa 1710 as clock No. 2, (now sadly much altered), would appear to date from circa 1710. This clock, No. 5, is a rare survival in original condition. All duplex escapement clocks encountered so far have the seconds dial calibrated in six second intervals rather than the more usual five second intervals.