Carriage & Travel Clocks
News about Carriage & Travel Clocks
French carriage clocks – pretty and portable
NEW YORK – a Carriage clocks – so-named because they’re portable and were made to be carried, usually by way of a handle mounted to the top – are small, spring-driven timepieces. They were designed for travel, developed in the early 19th century in France, where they were often referred to as officers’ clocks. The […]
Skinner to host standout sales of watches & clocks, Oct. 20 + 22
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.— This October the Clocks, Watches & Scientific department at Skinner will feature two distinct sales: a timed online auction that closes October 20, and a live auction, Fine Horology: The Estate of David G. Newsom, on October 22. View the fully illustrated catalogs on LiveAuctioneers.
William Bunch Auctions to present huge estates auction Sept. 25
CHADDS FORD, Pa. – On Tuesday, Sept. 25, William Bunch Auctions will offer nearly 700 lots of estate antiques, fine and decorative arts at their Quarterly Antiques, Fine, & Decorative Arts Auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury to sell early long case clock March 11
LONDON – One of the most important early English long case clocks to come on to the market in the last 10 years will be sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of fine clocks, barometers and scientific instruments on Tuesday, March 11. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding. Bought by the existing owners great […]