A round dial wall clock with well shaped plates to the eight day timepiece fusee movement. The 11½ inch convex dial is signed in scroll 'W.R. Sobey, Exeter' and has black Roman numerals, blued steel spade hands and a cast brass bezel with an inner silvered sight ring, contained in a round mahogany case. The rear of the dial has, quite unusually for a flat dial, a cast false plate stamped with the dialmaker's name 'Wilkes, Birmingham' which would explain the better than average quality of the work on the dial.
William Rawlins Sobey is recorded as working in Exeter at various addresses from before 1832, then in 1848 he was at Queen Street with an advertisement in the Exeter Gazette, dated 13th September 1852 his address is given as 1, Queen Street. It was this advert that gave notice that Sobey was selling off his stock owing to a long continuance of ill health. By March 1855 he was described as 'the late' William Sobey.
Diameter: 14½ inches
Price: £1,550.00