BRACKET CLOCK MINIATURE JUMP, 93 Mount Street London Ca. 1895 England

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BRACKET CLOCK MINIATURE
Signed: JUMP, 93 Mount Street London
Circa 1895
England

Movement
The four pillar single chain fusee movement with arched plates and anchor escapement regulated by heavy disc bob pendulum with pendulum holdfast to the backplate.

Dial
Round, matt white enamelled dial with black Roman numerals for the hours, black Arabic numerals for the quarters and minute indices. The Breguet moon hour and minute hands are made of gilt brass. The winding hole for the going train is located above the IV. The maker has signed the dial JUMP, 93 Mount Street London and the dial is protected by a convex glass window set in the door.

Case
The case, with its ornate cornice and arched top, is made entirely of gilt brass. A blue glass window is decoratively placed below the dial. The case is crowned by a brass hinged carrying handle. The sides with rectangular glazed aperture and the rear with break-arch glazed door, case on four block feet.

Duration 1 week

Height 22
Width 13 cm.
Depth 10 cm.

Literature
Brian Loomes, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, London, p. 435

The maker
Richard Huyton Jump (born 1785) joined the workshop of Benjamin Louis Vulliamy in 1812. Two of his sons, Richard and Joseph, also worked for Vulliamy from 1835 and 1827 respectively. The brothers would have no doubt worked alongside the French master clockmaker Sylvian Mairet who trained under Breguet and also probably got to know James Ferguson Cole who produced a series of ‘hump-back’ carriage clocks in the Breguet tradition (a form which was later revived by Jump later in the century). Benjamin Louis Vulliamy died in 1854, the following year Joseph Jump, together with a third younger brother Alfred, set-up in business at 1A Bond Street, London as successors to Vulliamy. They were joined by Joseph’s son, Henry, who continued working with his father after his uncle Alfred died in 1872; and then by Henry’s first son, Henry Percival in 1875. In 1890 the business moved to 55 Pall Mall, In 1897 Henry Jump’s second son, Arthur Huyton, joined the firm and they moved to 93 Mount Street, London the following year where they remained until the cessation of the business in 1934.