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Pocket watch

Pocket watches demand rockets
08 February 2021Dealers’ online retail site reveals the pocket watches collecting market has become one of the biggest growers.

Rare George III watch barred from leaving country in hope it can be bought by a UK buyer
03 February 2021A £2m pocket watch once owned by George III has been temporarily blocked from export to give a UK institution the chance to purchase it.

Plea to help find presidential pocket watch stolen from London dealer
17 December 2020The trade has been asked to look out for a 14ct gold pocket watch that was stolen on December 12 from a gallery in Camden Passage in Islington, London.

Mudge and Dutton cased pocket watch ticks boxes at Golding Young & Mawer
16 November 2020A George III gold pair cased pocket watch gave a strong start to the Golding Young & Mawer (20% buyer’s premium) November 4 sale (brought forward a day to avoid lockdown restrictions).

Rare spy camera disguised as pocket watch from 1905 brings bidding battle between two museums
15 June 2020A rare ‘pocket watch’ sold by East Bristol Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) was more surveillance device than timekeeper.

Pocket previews
15 June 2020Dual time zones watches first came into fashion in France, where they were used to show both ‘time’ in the traditional manner and also Revolutionary time, a short-lived idea based on the decimal system.

A market still ticking as pocket watches bring demand at Lawrences of Bletchingley
23 March 2020A superb collection of 61 pocket watches drew strong demand at a Surrey auction last week as remote bidders, using the phone and online platforms, competed for some outstanding 17th, 18th and 19th century examples.

Unseen for a century, pocket watches bring £145,000 in Surrey sale
20 March 2020A cache of pocket watches, unseen on the market for close to a century, sold for £145,000 in Surrey today.

Second chance for works from Spetchley Park offered at Chorley’s
02 March 2020Second-dibs sales at regional salerooms – those that follow after a major London auctioneer has cherry-picked the contents of a stately country house – can sometimes acquire the slighting epithet of ‘crumbs from a rich man’s table’.

US mayor's Patek Philippe watch on offer at Chester fair
03 February 2020Time is of the essence in the story of Speed Menefee (1879-1968), the shortest-serving city mayor in US history – and original owner of a pocket watch offered at the Chester Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Pick of the week: Pocketwatch with Oliver Cromwell connection sells in Cumbria
05 August 2019Did a watch offered for sale in Carlisle at the end of July once belong to Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)? Two centuries of provenance suggest it did.

Auction record for English watch as George Daniels timepiece sells for £3m at Sotheby’s
16 July 2019Among the objects in demand at Sotheby’s this season was one of only 23 pocket watches made by George Daniels (1926-2011) – the 1982 Space Traveller I.

Silver Tompion pocket watch discovered buried in Hexham ground
15 July 2019A silver pocket watch by ‘father of British clockmaking’ Thomas Tompion has been literally unearthed in Northumberland.

Manchester City first ever FA Cup win in 1904 marked by Billy Meredith gold watch coming up for auction
24 May 2019When Manchester City lifted the FA Cup this month they created football history by becoming the first club to win all three major English domestic honours in the same season. A watch coming up for auction from a very different era marks their first ever FA Cup success, however.

Pick of the week: 18th century pocket watch by Henry Cowper bought for £1 proves a profitable investment
25 February 2019An 18th century pocket watch by Gibraltarian goldsmith Henry Cowper emerged for sale at Rowley’s auction house in Ely. It belonged to a Lincolnshire private collector who bought it over 50 years ago for £1 from a former resident of the Rock.

Timely online search enables son to buy back his father's First World War pocket watch
19 November 2018When Alan Wardle’s niece searched online for family history she uncovered his father’s long-lost First World War presentation pocket watch coming up at auction.

Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar watch among ‘treasures’ to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
26 June 2018A pocket watch worn by Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar and probably given to him after his triumph at the Battle of the Nile is to be offered at auction next month.

Timely reminder of 19th century Bombay business
23 October 2017A gift from the founder of the Tata global business empire to the architect who designed his Bombay headquarters, this late 19th century Patek Philippe gold hunter pocket watch was an eyecatcher at Andrew Smith (19% buyer’s premium) at Itchen Stoke on September 12.

Police call on antiques trade to help find stolen jewellery from Shropshire antique centre
28 June 2017Police are appealing to the trade to help locate jewellery stolen in Shropshire.

British pocket watches to feature in sale of local man’s collection at The Canterbury Auction Galleries
24 March 2017An 18th century gold-coloured pocket watch is among the lots expected to lead one collection in The Canterbury Auction Galleries’ upcoming auction.

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