Daniel Quare

• gilt full plate movement, pierced and engraved balance cock with irregular pierced foot, tulip pillars, movement signed D Quare, London, 699 • silvered champlevé dial calibrated from I to VI in roman numerals and super imposed with arabic numerals 7 - 12, single serpentine blued steel hand • plain inner and outer cases, case maker's mark ND conjoined (Nathaniel Delander), outer case with case maker's mark TI surmounted by a crown (Thomas Jenkins), square hinge, loose ring bow

Clutton & Daniels, Watches, p. 89, colour pl. IX, fig. A and figs. 108 a-b

Movement running, however may require cleaning. Dial in good condition. Outer case slightly bruised. loose ring to bow possibly replaced. No hallmarks to the case.
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In the London Gazette for March 25-29, 1686 advertisement was published which read, 'lost, on 2nd inst., a silver pendulum watch, the name Daniel Quare, London; it had but six hours upon the dial-plate, with six small cipher figures within every hour, the hand going round every six hours, whoch shows also the minutes between every hour. Whoever gives notice of it to Daniel Quare, at the Kings Arms, in Exchange Alley, London, shall have a guinea reward'.
The idea of its divisions into six hours may have been to give the one hand longer space for more nearly estimating small fractions of an hour.

Daniel Quare was born in Somerset in 1649. A highly esteemed watchmaker of his day, Quare was admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1671 and Master in 1708. In 1680 he invented a type of repeating work for watches. In 1718 he went into partnership with Stephen Horseman, after which their work was signed 'Quare & Horseman'. Known watches signed by Quare have numbers 233 to 4989. Repeating watches had a separate series known from 109 to 857.

J. F. Britten, Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, 1922, p.223 - 224.
For an explanation of the workings of the six-hour dial, see Watches, p.89