Clockmaker / watchmaker / instrument maker
Daniel Quare
Also recorded as: Quare, Daniel
Quaker clockmaker whose single-push repeating watch was preferred to Barlow's in 1687.
Daniel Quare made clocks, watches and barometers in London. In 1687 his repeating-watch mechanism was preferred by the Privy Council to the rival design of Edward Barlow, and he made year-going and equation clocks. As a Quaker he refused the oath required of a royal clockmaker, yet worked for George I.
- Country
- England
- City / centre
- London
- Life / active
- 1649–1724
- Status
- Historical individual
- Key people
- Daniel Quare
Innovations & specialities
- Single-push repeating watch (1687)
- Portable barometers
- Equation clocks
Works by Daniel Quare in the catalogue
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Pocket Watches · ca. 1700
Watch by Daniel Quare, England, ca. 1700
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Movements & Components · 1700
Watch movement by Quare, Daniel, England, 1700
Science Museum Group, London
Pocket Watches · 1710
Pocket watch by Quare, Daniel, England, 1710
Science Museum Group, London
Pocket Watches · 1712
Pocket watch by Quare, Daniel; Huaud Frères, England, 1712
Science Museum Group, London
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