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Last updated 22 September 2012

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[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: A264)

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 Watches
O/P. 192 lots, some illustrated. The sale included pocker chronometers by McCabe, Molyneux and Barraud as well as watches by the Le Roy family. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 26/06/1973] (Ref: A212)

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]: Important Clocks and Watches
O/P. 286 lots, some illustrated. Top watch in the sale was a gold cased minute-repeating and grande sonnerie clockwatch by Parkinson & Frodsham, top clock was a table orrery-clock by Raingo Freres & Leroy et Fils. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 18/07/1979] (Ref: A243)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Horological Books, Barometers, Clocks and Watches
O/P. 243 lots, some illustrated. A good selection of English and European items. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 11/02/1981] (Ref: A244)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Horological Books, Important Clocks, Watches and Chronometers
O/P. 201 lots, some ilustrated. Highlights of the sale were a table clock by Edward East, London; two bracket clocks by John Knibb, Oxford; a Tompion bracket clock in a French Boulle case (ex Wetherfield Collection); and chronometers by John Arnold and Robert Pennington. A good copy internally, a few annotations in text, card covers now worn. [Sale @ King Street, London 25/11/1981] (Ref: A236)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Barometers, Fine Clocks and Important Watches
O/P. 212 lots, some illustrated. Tompion no. 317, a fine ebony bracket clock, was sold in this sale as was John Arnold's "unknown" 8-day timekeeper. The sale concluded with 3 fine watches - a pocket chronometer with Peto cross detent escapement, a gold and emanel cruciform watch and a small gold and enamel watch by David Rousseau, Geneva. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 28/04/1982] (Ref: A245)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Scientific Instruments, Clocks and Watches
O/P. 249 lots, some illustrated. The sales star lot was an early walnut cased table clock by Joesph Knibb of London which sold for £17,280 - I wonder what it is worth today? A good copy with annotations in text, the card covers now worn. [Sale @ King Street, London 07/10/1982] (Ref: A237)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Clocks and Watches
O/P. 117 lots, some illustrated. The sale included a fine longcase regulator by Lepaute and an interesting early longcase clock by Edmund Appley of Charing Cross. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 28/05/1986] (Ref: A241)

Price: £3.00

[Christie's]: Time Measuring Instruments from the Time Museum
O/P. 107 pages plus index, 1988. The catalogue of 161 instruments from the Time Museum Collection sold by Christie's in London in April 1988. The instruments included some good astrolabes and sundials. A very good copy, hardback. [Sale @ South Kensington, London 14/04/1988] (Ref: A1999)

Price: £20.00

[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]: Clocks and Watches
O/P. 149 lots, some illustrated. The items included an important South German tabernacle clock with astrolabe dial, an early bracket clock by Samuel Betts, London, and an interesting pocket chronometer by Barraud, London with an interesting history. Some annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 04/12/1989] (Ref: A256)

Price: £4.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks and Watches
O/P. 351 lots, most illustrated in colour. The clocks included a rare ebony bracket clock by Simon Bartram, London and a walnut longcase by Thomas Tompion muber 486. The majority of the lots are pocket and wristwatches. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ New York 20/04/1991] (Ref: A249)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 298 lots, some illustrated. A wide range of items to suit all tastes. A very good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 25/04/1991] (Ref: A261)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Watches and Wristwatches
O/P. 496 lots, most illustrated in colour. A rare early minute repeating square wristwatch by Audemars Piguet was a highlight of the sale, as was a trip-minute repeating pocket chronograph by Patek Philippe. A very good copy, card covers. [Sale @ Geneva 15/05/1991] (Ref: A260)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 623 lots, many illustrated. Fine clocks by Tompion, Graham, Knibb, Ellicott, Quare and a tortoiseshell musical bracket clock by Benjamin Barber, London. The wristwatches included some fine examples by Rolex and Patek Philippe. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 3&4/07/1991] (Ref: A255)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Clocks, Watches, Barometers and Collectable Swatches
O/P. 418 pages, most lots illustrated. A wide range of clocks and watches. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 02/10/1991] (Ref: A259)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks, watches and Barometers
O/P. 294 lots, most illustrated in colour. Highlights of the sale were a magnificent astronomical longcase clock probably by Joseph Finney of Liverpool (Mr Sandforth's clock), a 6-month going regulator by Jacob Aimé, a rare month-going sidereal and mean-time regulator by George Margetts and the Selby-Lowndes grande sonnerie bracket clock by Thomas Tompion. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 30/06/1993] (Ref: A67)

Price: £5.00

[Christie's]: Watches
O/P. 235 lots, many illustrated in colour. As well as pocket and wristwatches by all the major Swiss makers there was a fine gold singing bird box with seperate watch and musical mechanism. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 06/10/1993] (Ref: A262)

Price: £5.00

[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]: The Dr Eugene and Rose Antelis Collection of Important French Carriage Clocks
O/P. 187 clocks described and illustrated in colour, 1998. A good catalogue showing a wide range of French carriage clocks including rare and unusual examples. A very good copy, hardback, with good dust jacket. [Sale @ South Kensington, London 26/11/1998] (Ref: A228)

Price: £25.00

[Christie's]: Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers
O/P. A good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 06/07/2001] (Ref: A189)

Price: £5.00

[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

[Christie's]: Important Clocks including the Collection of the Late Alam Wagstaff Esq.
O/P. 125 lots, most illustrated in colour. The sale included an exceptional musical and automaton miniature table clock by Markwick Markham Perigal circa 1770, a Johannes Fromanteel longcase clock and a provincial longcase clock with a rhomboid pendulum. A good copy, card covers. [Sale @ King Street, London 07/12/2005] (Ref: A258)

Price: £5.00

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