John Waters, London a late-17th-century longcase clock the m...

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£500 - £700

John Waters, London a late-17th-century longcase clock the month duration, six-pillar movement (sixth pillar removed) having latched dial pillars and striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring with engraved black Roman numerals and meeting-arrowhead half-hour markings, the matted centre with engraved decoration to the date aperture and subsidiary seconds dial, with cast-brass cherub-head spandrels to the four corners, with engraved decoration to the dial edge and later blued-steel hands, signed below the chapter ring John Waters, London, the later flat-top oak case with shaped door, quarter columns to the trunk and standing on a double plinth, height 189cm. Notes: John Waters was apprenticed to John North in July 1674 but being passed over to Nicholas Beck after a few months. He became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1682. Amongst the apprentices he took on in his working life was John Ellicott senior, being the father of John Ellicott junior who was to become a famed and eminent maker. In 1705 John Waters was made an Assistant to the Court of the Clockmakers Company but there is no record of him recorded after 1706.