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Clockmaker/By : William Wilks of Wolverton - (Warwickshire).

Duration : 8 Day

Circa : 1765

Height : 87 inches excluding finials.

Case :
Swan neck hood with side finials and oak and mahogany case.
Reeded brass capped pillars to hood and quartered reeded columns to trunk.
Inlaid frieze above shaped door.
Wavy apron plinth.
Width at widest point is 19.5ins (hood).

Dial :
Brass arched dial 17" x 12" with maker's name engraved in cartouche in arch.
Good quality Rococo scroll style spandrels also to arch cartouche.
Well engraved dial centre with semi circular date dial and star burst centre seconds dial.
Silvered minute chapter ring with half hour markers.
Matching steel hour and minute hands.
Roman numerals.

Maker :
William Wilks was the son of clock maker John Wilks and worked in Wolverton 1762 -
1769

William took apprentices as follows:
      Isaac Court 1763
     Charles Oldham 1763
     William Whitehead 1769
     Richard Wilks 1770

He was a maker of Church turret clocks including one for Claverdon Church in 1777
for £20 - replaced in 1905, but now restored and in the aisle near the pulpit.

John Wilks' known working dates are:
     Stratford-upon-Avon 1730 - 1776
     Wolverton 1777 -1780

Price : £ 4,500

Guarantee : 12 months