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CHARLES FRODSHAM, LONDON
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND LARGE SILVER TWO-DAY POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH WOODEN DECK BOX 1885, NO.07324
估價 30,000 — 50,000 英鎊
260,036 - 433,393人民幣
拍品已售 37,500 英鎊 (325,045 人民幣) 成交價 (含買家佣金)
• Movement: gilded half-plate, spring detent escapement, free-sprung bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel helical spring, diamond endstone, fusee and chain, signed Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, by Appointment to the
Queen, No. 07324 AD Fmsz and with Royal Warrant and gold medal prize medallions
• Dial: silvered, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary dial for up-and-down showing state of wind below 12 o’clock divided into 54 hours, subsidiary seconds, blued steel spade hands, signed and numbered ensuite with the movement
• Case: plain silver polished, the hinged back opening to reveal plain polished silver cuvette with apertures for winding and setting, case back and cuvette with London hallmarks for 1885 and with case maker’**ark GJT incuse for George James Thickbroom, with blue velvet lined three-tier mahogany deck box, accompanied by keys for watch and deck box
diameter 68 mm
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來源
Sotheby's London, 7th December 1982, lot 151
Sotheby's Geneva, 17th May 2000, lot 114
出版
Terence Camerer Cuss, The English Watch 1585-1970, 2009, pp. 418-419, pl. 269
相關資料
The present lot belongs to a special series of deck watches, totaling approximately twenty-two pieces, which were produced over a period of forty years. Today, eleven pieces are known to have survived. The first two pieces from the group were sold around 1856-7. The present lot, no.07324, together with 4 others, were finished 25-30 years later; these included number 06836 which is illustrated in Camerer Cuss, The
English Watch 1585-1970, pp. 416-417, pl. 268. The final part of the series was finished in three small groups in the late 1880s and 1890s. The ébauche was supplied by Joseph Preston & Sons, Prescot. Unfortunately, Frodsham’s sales books are missing for the period, however, it is highly likely that the present watch was purchased for use on a private yacht – at the time, there was a great enthusiasm for competitive yacht
racing. Indeed, no. 07622, which is also from this special series of deck watches, has RYS Valhalla to the escutcheon of the box’s lid; her owner was the Edinburgh Astronomer John Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and a member of the prestigious
Royal Yacht Squadron.
In 1843, Charles Frodsham bought the firm J.R. Arnold, re-naming the business Arnold and Frodsham. This was a bold move as it set him up at 84 Strand. He retained the double name until 1858 when the firm Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, was officially established. Through hi**any publications and timepieces, Frodsham dedicated himself to the exploration and improvement of timekeeping in it**any forms, achieving acclaim for his work from chronometers to barometers. The Frodsham balance, which was designed for phenomenal accuracy, can be found in carriage clocks and some mantel clocks dating to as early as 1851.
Frodsham became free of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1845 and Master of the Company in 1855. He served a**aster of the Company for a second time in 1862, that same year he was elected Vice-President of the British Horological Institute, of
which he was one of the original members.
In 1855 he won the Gold Medal of Honour at the Paris Exhibition. In 1862 he was awarded the Medal of Honour for his service as a juror at the Great International Exhibition in South Kensington. He continued to achieve recognition at exhibitions
from Russia to Paris. Charles Frodsham excelled at his art until his death in January, 1871, at the age of 60.
Upon Charles’s death, his son, Harrison Mill Frodsham, took charge of the firm and incorporated it in 1893 as Charles Frodsham & Co. Ltd. Harrison Mill Frodsham proved to be an able horologist and businessman and the firm continued to flourish as a maker of fine timepieces, as the present lot exemplifies.
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