Daniel Delander, London

• gilt full plate movement, verge escapement, pierced and engraved balance cock, later diamond end-stone, flat steel balance, Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain, repeating on a bell to the inside case back • silver champlevé dial, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute track, blued steel beetle and poker hands, raised shell and scroll work above the signature and grotesque mask below, Tompion's chain and hinged quarter rack type repeating work • gilt metal bayonet-type dust cap • the inner case pierced and engraved with tight scrolling foliage inhabited by birds and flowers, an engraved lakeside town beneath the pendant and a masked head below 6 o'clock, the silver outer case with symmetrically arranged pierced roundels of varying sizes, aperture below 5 o'clock for the elongated pulse piece, the cases stamped WI incuse for William Jacques • movement signed Dan Delander London

Sotheby's, London, 26^th May 1978, lot 207

David Landes, Boston

David Landes, Boston, Revolution in Time, fig 23.1

Terrence Camerer Cuss,The English Watch 1585-1970, p. 144, pl. 74

Daniel Delander was a journeyman of Thomas Tompion's, but also had his own business before Tompion's death in 1713. Although Delander did not produce many watches, they were all finished to a high standard. It should be noted that the present lot includes Tompion's chain and hinged quarter rack type repeating.  Two additional unusual features are the watch’s early bayonet-type dust cap and the unique activation set up for the dumb repeat, with a pipe that markedly protrudes from the outer case. Delander was one of the first makers to incorporate pierced rubies and ruby or diamond endstones for his balance staff pivots. As frequently occurred, this watch has been later fitted with a diamond endstone and jewelled bearings to the balance staff pivots, perhaps shortly after 1712.

Daniel Delander was born c. 1678 and apprenticed in April 1692 to Charles Halsted before transferring to Thomas Tompion. He was free of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1699. Delander took on a number of apprentices and it is believed he died in 1733 See Loomes, The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, 1981, p. 189.