Objekt 5
Chronoscope watch with over case
Description
The Fromanteel family was a 17th century Anglo-Dutch clockmaking family that made pendulum clocks and later pocket watches. Ahasverus Fromanteel (1607-1693) settled in London in 1629. At least three of his eight children in turn became clockmakers: John (c. 1638-1690), Ahasverus II (c. 1640-1703), who later lived in Amsterdam, and Abraham (c. 1646-1730), who went to Newcastle. With branches in London, Amsterdam and Newcastle, the Fromanteel family was the first multinational in the watchmaking industry. In the 1680s, the three Fromanteel brothers decided to use a common signature: Fromanteel without initials and without place of establishment.
Object description
Manufacturer: Fromanteel
England, around 1690
Silver, enamel, pit enamel, bronze gilded, steel partly blued, glass, textile inlay
Signature: Fromanteel
Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.100
Inv. 1983.1100.