A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK WITH AN EARLIER MOVEMENT BY DANIEL DELANDER (D. 1733)

Description: A GEORGE III OAK LONGCASE CLOCK WITH AN EARLIER MOVEMENT BY DANIEL DELANDER (D. 1733)
The plain plinth below an arched trunk door, the domed hood with glazed door; the eleven day movement with silvered chapter ring having Roman hours and Arabic minutes, matted centre, pierced blued steel hands, foliate spandrels signed 'Delander London'.
Height 195cm; Width 48cm; Depth 24cm

OTHER NOTES:
Daniel Delander (c.1678-1733) of the Dial, Devereaux Court in the Middle Temple (later moved to between the Temple Gates on Fleet Street) was bound as apprentice to Charles Halstead in 1692, becoming a freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in 1699. He is known to have worked for Thomas Tompion as a journeyman alongside George Graham while also producing his own work.
Delander was an admired watchmaker and clockmaker in his time, and was the first to produce a stopwatch with independent centre seconds. Examples of his work exist in the Science Museum, London, the Guildhall, London, the British Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.