A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece, 16cm silvered Gothic chapter ring inscribed with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, five pillar fusee ... movement, moulded oval carrara marble base, glass dome, 44cm high overall, c.1860 This important clock is attributable to Evans of Handsworth, Birmingham, and has his typical scroll,l frame, robust movement, inverted train to enable the seconds subsidiary dial to be placed low down on the main chapter, and Evans's pivoted detent escapement, invented by the maker c. 1860. The company of William Frederick Evans evolved from one set up in the last years of the 18th century by John Houghton, clockmaker to Matthew Boulton FRS of the Soho works, Handsworth. Boulton originally had John Whitehurst FRS make movements for his exceptionally high quality decorative clocks, and Whitehurst later recommended his former assistant Thomas Mawkes to take the work over from him. When the latter returned to Derby Boulton appointed John Houghton who set up on his own in Soho Street, Handsworth when Boulton ceased to make clocks in 1805. Evans joined him as an assistant, became his son-in-law and took the firm over on Houghton's retirement at a great age in 1843 as W F Evans & Son. Evans later concentrated on making high quality and very distinctive skeleton clocks into the 1870s. Read more
A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece, 16cm silvered Gothic chapter ring inscribed with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, five pillar fusee ... movement, moulded oval carrara marble base, glass dome, 44cm high overall, c.1860 This important clock is attributable to Evans of Handsworth, Birmingham, and has his typical scroll,l frame, robust movement, inverted train to enable the seconds subsidiary dial to be placed low down on the main chapter, and Evans's pivoted detent escapement, invented by the maker c. 1860. The company of William Frederick Evans evolved from one set up in the last years of the 18th century by John Houghton, clockmaker to Matthew Boulton FRS of the Soho works, Handsworth. Boulton originally had John Whitehurst FRS make movements for his exceptionally high quality decorative clocks, and Whitehurst later recommended his former assistant Thomas Mawkes to take the work over from him. When the latter returned to Derby Boulton appointed John Houghton who set up on his own in Soho Street, Handsworth when Boulton ceased to make clocks in 1805. Evans joined him as an assistant, became his son-in-law and took the firm over on Houghton's retirement at a great age in 1843 as W F Evans & Son. Evans later concentrated on making high quality and very distinctive skeleton clocks into the 1870s. Read more
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