Clocks, Watches & Jewellery
This category ranges from historical clocks to contemporary jewellery. Dealers tend to specialise in one of these individual areas while many auctions feature separate sections for horology, watches and jewellery as part of their mixed sales.
However, dedicated sales, especially in the jewellery category, are now fairly commonly especially in London, Birmingham and other major centres.
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18th century barometers still command a premium
16 August 2012While 19th century wheel, or banjo, barometers have not been the most sought after items at auction in recent times, 18th century stick barometers can still bring strong demand, as evidenced by the George III example pictured here.
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Derby now hit in spate of museum thefts
13 August 2012Coins, medals and watches worth over £50,000 have been stolen as a series of museum break-ins continues.
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Automaton clock at Sotheby's draws serious demand from Asia
26 July 2012Among the clocks sold in London this summer, there were some of the glitziest and most expensive timekeepers to go under the hammer in recent times, many of them made for the Chinese market.
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Art Deco drop pearl pendant in Salisbury
12 July 2012A selection of natural pearl jewellery will be included in Woolley and Wallis’ designated sale on July 19 in Salisbury.
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Stock from London’s oldest pawnbrokers
12 July 2012A large sale of jewellery and watches from Suttons & Robertsons, London’s oldest pawnbrokers, is to be offered at Fellows of Birmingham on July 16.
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Coronets emerge at Shrewsbury sale
20 June 2012The fine pictures, silver and jewellery auction at Halls of Shrewsbury on June 27 will offer for sale the coronets and accompanying robes bought in the second quarter of the 19th century from Garrard & Co Ltd and worn by the Earl and Countess of Cavan.
Time runs out for London clock duo
19 June 2012After 12 years of trading together, London clock dealers Nigel Raffety and Howard Walwyn of Raffety & Walwyn Ltd have announced that they will be going their separate ways this month.
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Second Burges brooch makes appearance
14 June 2012Antiques Roadshow and Midlands auction house Gildings have conspired again to find a second William Burges brooch.
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Ramraiders target Auction Company Broadway
21 May 2012Ramraiders have stolen more than 50 silver and jewellery items worth up to £20,000 from an auction house in Worcestershire.
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Eureka clock emerges in Plymouth
30 April 2012Bids in the region of £1000-1500 are expected at Plymouth Auction Rooms on May 9 for this Eureka four-glass electric clock.
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Why the Salisbury earrings were one in £1.4m
30 April 2012IF pearls reached the peak of their popularity in antiquity, when the Roman general Vitellius is said to have financed an entire military campaign by selling just one of his mother’s pearl earrings, then the market in 2012 does not rest too far behind.
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Child of its time takes £26,700
10 April 2012THIS large, 18in (45cm) high, London-made brass lantern clock, c.1660, proved the highlight of the recent single-owner estate sale conducted by Durrants of Beccles.
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Sotheby’s not negligent over Coleridge chain
12 March 2012THE High Court has ruled that Sotheby’s were not negligent in cataloguing and valuing a judge’s gold chain of office as late 17th century rather than a spectacularly rare survivor from Tudor times.
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Gudin as gold at £54,000
27 February 2012The latest sale at Duke’s of Dorchester included this 16in (41cm) wide French chinoiserie ormolu and lacquered bronze mantel clock c.1750.
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Burglar scoops huge gems haul at Glasgow auctioneers
23 January 2012ANTIQUE and secondhand jewellery valued at £430,000 has been stolen during a break-in at an auction house in south Glasgow following what appears to have been a carefully planned and meticulously timed raid.
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Altered cases no bar to bidding at London horology sales
14 January 2012In clock collecting, the gold standard of original condition can be a difficult one to meet. Clocks almost always needing repairs or replacement parts to keep functioning day in, day out for centuries.
Movie legend lives on with Elizabeth Taylor £100m legacy
04 January 2012AS sales go, it is hard to imagine one that could have been more of an auctioneer’s dream than the collection of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewellery and personal possessions.
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Turning lathe at $55,000 in US sale
15 August 2011THIS Holtzapffel & Deyerlein ornamental turning lathe made in London c.1827 came up for sale at Skinner in Marlborough, Massachusetts in a Science, Technology and Clocks sale.
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Golden Age discovery at £600,000
04 July 2011THE discovery of a new clock by a Golden Age maker is bound to generate excitement in horological circles, but the £600,000 plus premium paid at Bonhams last week for the ebony table clock pictured here illustrates just how much the rarest and freshest examples can command.
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Time capsule from James I
28 March 2011THE highlight of the two-day sale conducted by Rosebery's of West Norwood, London on March 15-16 was this unsigned lantern clock, left, consigned 'in the rough' by a private vendor.
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