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- Born:
- c. 1648, Somersetshire?, England
- Died:
- March 21, 1724 [1723, Old Style], Croydon, Surrey
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Quare, Daniel: Queen Ann clock
Queen Anne quarter repeating bracket clock, ebony veneered case with gilt brass mounts and a brass dial, by Daniel Quare, c. 1700.
Daniel Quare
English clockmaker and inventor
Daniel Quare (born c. 1648, Somersetshire?, England—died March 21, 1724 [1723, Old Style], Croydon, Surrey) was a celebrated English clock maker who invented a repeating watch mechanism (1680) that sounded the nearest hour and quarter hour when the owner pushed a pin protruding from the case. He also invented a portable barometer (1695), originally fitted with legs but later designed to hang on a wall.
Quare was admitted to the Clockmakers’ Company in 1671 and became a master of the company in 1708. After 1709 he went into partnership with one of his ex-apprentices, Stephen Horseman, who carried on the business after Quare’s death until going bankrupt in 1733.
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