111st Auction
2024/11/16
Lot 149
John TrubshawTravelling Companion
A rare London coach clock of high quality, with hour strike and original leather-covered box
Sold
estimated
5.000—14.000 €
Price realized
8.800 €
specific features
Case
Silver, the rim open-worked and decorated with foliage, birds and four cartouches with engraved grotesque faces and landscape motifs with a wanderer and an angler, rear bell.
Dial
Silver, champlevé, radial Roman hours, signature cartouches.
Movement
Full plate movement, chain/fusee, 2 florally engraved barrels, 1 hammer, verge escapement, silver count wheel, three-arm steel balance.
Diam.110 mm
Circa1700
Ctry.England
John Trubshaw was a well-reputed watchmaker who lived in the late 17th and early 18th century. He apprenticed with Robert Halstead in 1679 and became a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1686. In 1710 he became an assistant in the company but he died bevor he could rise to a warden’s position in 1714.
This piece is an excellent example of early 18th-century British watchmaking.