Running on the pinion is a wheel that carries the seconds hand. Mounted on the extended arbor of the centre wheel is a cannon pinion which carries the minute hand in the normal way. The arbor of the contrate wheel is extended through the back plate to carry a wheel that in turn meshes with another specially cut wheel, a cross between a standard wheel and a bevel gear. The movement has the usual four-wheel going train with fusee, but apart from that the watch is anything but conventional. This appears to be an early example of a watch with two dials. The regulation dial is located here because the back of the watch is occupied by a secondary dial with hands that only show minutes and seconds. Two now survive just as movements without cases, but this watch, signed 'Dan: Delander London 1037' and by far the most interesting and unusual of the three, is a silver cased double-dialled verge stop-watch made around 1725.The front dial is conventional, with the exception of the regulation dial, visible through an aperture just below XII o'clock. The British Museum holds three watches by Delander. Delander is perhaps best known for his finely made walnut cased longcase clocks with duplex escapement, examples of which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From 1712 to 1717 he moved to Two Temple Gates, then moved again across the road to Fleet Street, where he remained until his death around 1733. His premises were at The Dial in Devereux Court between 17. He then worked for Tompion, but later set up business in his own right. He transferred to Thomas Tompion and gained his Freedom in the Clockmakers' Company on 3 July 1699. This particular entry is fascinating in detailing a new anti-theft device for pair-cased watches, invented by Daniel Delander, but it seems that no example of such a 'spring' has survived.ĭaniel Delander, clock- and watchmaker of London, is first recorded when he took up his apprenticeship with Charles Halstead in the Clockmakers' Company on 25 April 1692. Millburn, and through their efforts we are introduced to a wealth of information. This and many other lost watch notices placed in the London newspapers during the reign of Queen Anne have been made available to the horological world by the researches of W.R. This spring is to be fixed to all manner of watch cases." Delander of a spring, which is very neatly fix'd to the outside, and will prevent the cases being lost or stolen.
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If the person who found it will bring it to Daniel Delander watch-maker in Devereux Court, shall have five guineas reward and no questions ask'd.
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"Lost from a lady's side going out of Trinity Chapel the 25th of November, a gold case of a repeating watch chac'd and pierc'd on the sides, with a cipher, J. SILVER CASED VERGE WITH INDEPENDENT STOP-WATCH Text from 'Watches', by David Thompson, London, 2008, p. For a description of this watch by David Thompson see Antiquarian Horology, Volume 24, No.6, Summer 1999, p570/571