Henry Godfrey, London

• gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, decoratively pierced and engraved balance cock and foot, flat three-arm balance, tulip pillars, fusee and chain • silver champlevé dial, large aperture with rotating disc divided into day and night, the hours indicated on an outer semi-circular chapter ring with Roman numerals, the daytime hours indicated by a gilt sun with pointer, the night hours indicated by the moon with pointer, inlaid with black and red wax highlights, outer Arabic minute track, single blued steel hand, the lower half of the dial with engraved scrolling foliage inhabited by birds below the signature • plain silver inner case, winding aperture to back, inner case with maker's mark ‘II’ for Jonathan Jones • tortoiseshell outer case with silver rondels, silver inlaid decoration, engraved birds and flowers at the quarters and, within a circular reserve, a vase, flowers and foliage • dial and movement signed Hen. Godfrey, London

Henry Godfrey was a Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company between 1685 and 1707. Britten, in his Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, describes an entry in the London Gazette of 7-10th October 1700: "A pretty large-sized Pendulum-watch in a Tortoiseshell Case; it shews the Hours and Minutes with a Sun and Moon Dial Plate, made by Henry Godfrey, London."

A watch with six hour dial by Godfrey is illustrated in the Camerer Cuss book of Antique Watches, p. 78, pl. 29.