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756osC.W An exceptional silvered dial English dial clock by this eminent maker. The case with oak leaf and acorn surround nicely carved in mahogany. It has an access door to the base of the back box, which is of round coopered construction. The case has a wooden bezel with an integral gilded wooden sight ring. The 12" silvered and engraved dial has Roman numerals and is signed for the maker B. L. Vulliamy, Clockmaker to the Queen, London AD 1851. The blued steel hands are of an usual shape. The eight day chain fusee movement has rectangular plates and four shaped pillars. It employs an anchor escapement and is signed on the backplate Vulliamy, London No 1904. There is an unusual Vulliamy style steel rod pendulum with a heavy and very thick brass bob which is also numbered 1904.
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BENJAMIN LEWIS VULLIAMY (1780-1854)
Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy was the last of a line of exceptional clockmakers in the Vulliamy family, the first of which was François Justin (always known as Justin Vulliamy), followed by his son Benjamin, followed by his son Benjamin Lewis and Justin Theodore.
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Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy was born on the 25th January 1780, not a lot is known about his childhood except that he spent most of it at 68 Pall Mall. He joined his father in Pall Mall very early in life, certainly when less than 20 years of age. He received the Freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company in December 1809 and became a liveryman in January 1810 at the age of 30 and was admitted to the Court of Gild in the same year. There he served every office in the Court and was five times elected Master. In his years of service he did much to further the good reputation of the clockmakers’ trade and against increasing odds he succeeded in preserving high standards of craftsmanship which can be seen in almost all of the clocks that he produced. Unlike his father’s main output, which was of ornamental house clocks and furnishing items, Benjamin Lewis tended to concentrate on using the very best of materials and workmanship in order to give long and trouble free life to his clocks. The workforce that Vulliamy used were in many instances specialist craftsman or out workers. There were however a number of staff permanently employed at 68 Pall Mall. In particular were members of the Jump family who after Vulliamy’s death went on to found their own famous and very successful business. |
