It made £7500 against an estimate of £1500-2000.The 180-lot sale raised £275,400 with selling rates of 66 per cent by lot and 68 per cent by value.
Delander delights at £7500
Topping the sale of fine watches held at Bonhams’ Bond Street (19.5/10% buyer’s premium) rooms on April 15, was this 18th century gold pair cased verge watch. This had a signed and numbered movement (562) by Daniel Delander, who was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1699, and was contained in plain gold cases marked for London, 1716.
