Christie's

[Christie's]: The Celebrated Collection of English and Continental Clocks formed by the late Courtnay A. Ilbert, Esq., F.B.H.I.
O/P. 96 pages, 26 b&w plates, 1 colour plate, 1958. The Christie's sale catalogue (illustrated) for the famous Ilbert collection; the collection was sold to the British Museum prior to the auction. A good copy, the boards a little discoloured. Hardback. [Sale @ King Street, London 6 & 7/11/1958] (Ref: A201)
Price: £30.00

[Christie's]: The Celebrated Collection of English and Continental Clocks formed by the late Courtnay A. Ilbert, Esq., F.B.H.I.
O/P. 96 pages, 26 b&w plates, 1 colour plate, 1958. The Christie's sale catalogue for the famous Ilbert collection; the collection was sold to the British Museum prior to the auction. Ex reference library, a clean copy with small blind library stamp to plates, spine worn and with title etc added in ink, boards discoloured. Hardback. [Sale @ King Street, London 6 & 7/11/1958] (Ref: K1238)
Price: £25.00

[Christie's]: Clocks, Watches and Fine Scientific Instruments
O/P. 212 lots, some illustrated. As well as a 16th century mariners astrolabe the sale included 4 English musical bracket clocks and a bracket clock by Edward East. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 12/12/1972] (Ref: A194)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Precision & Decorative Watches and Clocks
O/P. 185 lots, some illustrated. The clocks included a walnut longcase by Benjamin Gray and bracket clocks by Arnold, Gretton and Vulliamy. The watches included pocket chronometers by Robert Molyneux, Parkinson & Frodsham, Thomas Earnshaw and E J Dent. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 27/02/1973] (Ref: A190)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks and Watches
O/P. 263 lots, some illustrated. The bracket clocks included a Queen Anne example veneered in mother-of-pearl, plus early clocks by Windmills, Markwick and Samuel Watson. Highlight of the watches was a silver pair-cased clock-watch by Robert Seignior, London. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King street, London 28/03/1973] (Ref: A192)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Scientific Instruments, Clocks and Chronometers
O/P. 210 lots, some illustrated. The sale included 20 marine chronometers (2 by Earnshaw) and a fine month going longcase clock by George Graham number 587. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 15/05/1973] (Ref: A191)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Clocks and Watches
O/P. 151 lots, some illustrated. A Tompion bracket clock, 3 Tompion watches, a marine chronometer by John Gottlieb Ulrich and 2 watches by Breguet - what more could a man want? A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 13/11/1973] (Ref: A193)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Clocks, Watches and Scientific Instruments
O/P. 228 lots, some illustrated. The sale included a set of four brass navigational instruments by Dominicus Lusuerg dated 1739, a Daniel Quare bracket clock and a quarter repeating watch by Thomas Windmills. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 03/04/1974] (Ref: A209)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Important Scientific Instruments and Fine Clocks
O/P. 190 lots, some illustrated. The sale included longcase regulators by Mudge and Ellicott, bracket clocks by Tompion and Ellicott as well as a gilt compendium by Erasmus Habermel dated 1596. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 30/03/1977] (Ref: A196)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Full Size and Model Engines and Ship Models
O/P. 312 lots, some illustrated. The sale included full size and model traction engines, Napoleonic era prisoner of war bone ship models, scratch built railway engine models, and 20th century ship models. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ Brighton & Hove Engineerium 04/04/1977] (Ref: A197)
Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Fine Watches, Clocks and Scientific Instruments
O/P. 276 lots, some illustrated. Top lot of the sale was a fine German gilt-metal table clock by Jacob Wideman of Augspurg. Other interesting items included a longcase cock by Daniel Delander, a fine gold watch by Robert Roskell, Liverpool with Berrolla's repeating work and a Breguet sapphire-set gold pocket watch. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 04/10/1977] (Ref: A198)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Skeleton Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 235 lots, some illustrated. The skeleton clocks included a musical example playing 15 tunes on 16 bells with 32 hammers. Other items of interest were several fine English bracket and longcase clocks. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 30/11/1977] (Ref: A199)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Clocks and Watches
O/P. 247 lots, some illustrated. The clocks included a quarter striking example by Samuel Berckhmann, Augspurg and a longcase regulator by Recordon, London. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street London 25/01/1978] (Ref: A200)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Clocks, Watches and Scientific Instruments
O/P. 189 lots, some illustrated. Star lot was a silver, hump backed cariage clock by Jump, London hallmarked 1885. Other interesting items were a French gold and enamel quarter repeating watch, an equinoctial ring dial by Cole, London, and several microscopes. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 08/03/1978] (Ref: A205)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Watches, Clocks and Barometers
O/P. 164 lots, some illustrated. Highlights of this sale were an angled barometer by Negretti & Zambra with thermometer and perpetual calendar, an Arnold & Dent carriage clock, a bracket clock by Stephen Rimbault with organ mechanism plus a good selection of longcase and bracket clocks. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 19/04/1978] (Ref: A206)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Fine Watches and Clocks
O/P. 199 lots, some illustrated. The clocks included George Graham longcase clock # 682, a musical longcase by Kipling (ex Wetherfield Collection), and a Henry Jones bracet clock. Watches included a self winding watch by Recordon, Spencer & Perkins, and a lever watch by Leroy & Cie. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 21/06/1978] (Ref: A207)
Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Clocks and Watches [London 28/11/1986]
O/P. An illustrated catalogue of 115 lots, including a fine Breguet 'hump back' carraige clock and a rare seconds beating, marine chronometer by Dent of london. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 28/11/1986] (Ref: A211)
Price: £4.00

[Christie's]: Clocks and Watches
O/P. An illustrated catalogue of 166 lots with some fine English longcase and bracket clocks including a longcase regulator by William Hardy, London and longcases attributed to Vulliamy and the Fromanteel workshop. The star of the bracket clocks was a musical example by Robert Roskell of Liverpool, the case in the manner of George Bullock. Good copy with pencil annotations, card covers. [Sale @ King street, London 12/12/1988] (Ref: A65)
Price: £4.00

[Christie's]: Clocks and Watches
O/P. Illustrated catalogue of 195 lots. Items for sale included a Germanic cannon alarm and fine longcase clocks by Vulliamy, Knibb and Tompion. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 22/03/1989] (Ref: A66)
Price: £4.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks, Watches and Marine Chronometers
O/P. An interesting illustrated catalogue of 390 lots including bracket clocks by Knibb, Tompion and Quare. The longcase clocks included examples by Tompion and Graham plus a year-going striking clock by Brockbanks. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 02/07/1997] (Ref: A70)
Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: French Carriage Clocks
O/P. This is the first sale ever devoted entirely to French carriage clocks. The 134 lots, all illustrated and described, were from an important private collection. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ South Kensington, London 03/07/1997] (Ref: A210)
Price: £24.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks, Watches and Marine Chronometers
O/P. This sale included a portrait miniature of Edward East and a month-going clock by him, as well as a fine month-going longcase regulator by Ellicott, and chronometers by Henri Motel, Berthoud and Breguet. 308 lots, most illustrated in colour. Good copy with a few annotations, card covers. [Sale @ king Street, London 25/11/1997] (Ref: A71)
Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers
O/P. 77 lots, all illustrated in colour. Star of the sale was an English astronomical skeleton timepiece with mean solar and sidereal time by James Shearer. Another unusual item was the gilt-metal striking chamber clock dated 1610 by John Smith of Kings Lynn. Another item built to impress was a mahogany longcase clock by Thomas Ogden of Halifax with a magnificent case attributed to James Paine and Thomas Chippendale. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 14/06/2000] (Ref: A175)
Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks and Scientific Instruments from the Collection of the Late Professor E.T. Hall C.B.E.
O/P. The Professor Hall collection of 56 lots included a fine month going Tompion loncase keeping sidereal time, a rare astromomical skeleton timepiece by James Gorham of London, a Congreve clock by Joseph Moxon circa 1820, a fine skeleton clock by James Condliff, a set of 4 fine escapement models, Hall's famous Littlemore clock and various scientific instruments. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 11/07/2003] (Ref: A174)
Price: £15.00

[Christie's]: Important Pocketwatches and Wristwatches
O/P. Many of the best watch sales are held in Geneva these days and this illustrated catalogue of 320 lots includes the exceptional Patek Philippe pocket watch, with one minute tourbillon and platinum case, made for Henry Graves. Other highlights were a unique marine chronometer with one minute tourbillon and spring detent escapement by James Pellaton, and a rare Breguet pocket watch. Good copy with quite a few annotations in ink, card covers. [Sale @ Geneva 18/05/2004] (Ref: A75)
Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Pocketwatches and Wristwatches
O/P. A catalogue of 350 lots, most illustrated in colour, including a rare silver and cloisonné desk timepiece with world time dial. The lots also included some fine Patek Philippe wristwatches including a rare ref 1436 stainless steel chronograph with pulsometer. [Sale @ Geneva 15/11/2004] (Ref: A76)
Price: £5.00