Thomas Williams
International Head of English Furniture & Clocks
London
Clocks, Marine Chronometers and Barometers
Christie’s has been selling clocks since our first auction in 1766. Renowned collections offered for sale include the Magnificent Clocks from the Nezu Museum (2008) and the Abbott Guggenheim Collection of Renaissance clocks and automata (2015).
Our department has a particularly strong record in selling clocks made for the Asian market — clockmakers such as James Cox and Henry Borrell, among others — including the world record price for an English-made clock at auction.
We also sell the very best clocks on the English market, makers from the ‘Golden Age’ of clockmaking: Thomas Tompion, George Graham, Daniel Quare, the Knibb family and Ahasuerus Fromanteel.
Christie’s holds the overall auction world record for a clock, a masterpiece by Karl Faberge which sold for £8,980,500 in 2007. Clocks are sold within all our Decorative Arts auctions and collection sales, with masterworks offered in selected Exceptional Sales. Recent private sales have included the unique Barnard Tompion table clock, via the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, which was permanently allocated to the Science Museum Group.
Our department has a particularly strong record in selling clocks made for the Asian market — clockmakers such as James Cox and Henry Borrell, among others — including the world record price for an English-made clock at auction.
We also sell the very best clocks on the English market, makers from the ‘Golden Age’ of clockmaking: Thomas Tompion, George Graham, Daniel Quare, the Knibb family and Ahasuerus Fromanteel.
Christie’s holds the overall auction world record for a clock, a masterpiece by Karl Faberge which sold for £8,980,500 in 2007. Clocks are sold within all our Decorative Arts auctions and collection sales, with masterworks offered in selected Exceptional Sales. Recent private sales have included the unique Barnard Tompion table clock, via the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, which was permanently allocated to the Science Museum Group.
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