Raffety is owned by Nigel Raffety, who has had a lifelong interest in horology commencing with the completion of one of the last traditional clock making apprenticeships in Clerkenwell, followed by International saleroom experience and catalogue preparation at Christies, in London. We specialise in selling and buying 17th & 18th Century antique English clocks, as well as antique barometers, chronometers and fine antique English furniture.
Nigel has exhibited for many years at the major antique fairs in London, New York and more recently Shanghai and served on their specialist vetting committees. Over the years, Raffety has become known as a premier resource for Antique English & European clocks serving collectors, private clients, museum authorities, enthusiastic investors and interior decorators throughout the world.
Nigel has exhibited for many years at the major antique fairs in London, New York and more recently Shanghai and served on their specialist vetting committees. Over the years, Raffety has become known as a premier resource for Antique English & European clocks serving collectors, private clients, museum authorities, enthusiastic investors and interior decorators throughout the world.
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While we love antique clocks, we have an equal passion for British craftsmanship of the 17th and 18th centuries and offer a selection of fine early English antique furniture in the 'new taste' of woods such as patinated walnut with elaborate marquetry and olive wood of the Queen Anne and George I period, to the later mahogany which dominated the later period of the Hanoverians'.
We stock antique marine chronometers dating from the 19th to early 20th centuries. The quality brass movements are usually set on a gimble within a mahogany case to protect them from the effects of being at sea. Chronometers epitomise much that is appealing about clocks, combining as they do, historical significance, mechanical complexity, inventive ingenuity and real aesthetic charm.
Our collection of British antique longcase clocks date from the late 17th to early 19th centuries with a particular emphasis on the Georgian period. Our antique longcase clocks were produced by both London and provincial clockmakers in a variety of cases - walnut, mahogany, ebonised, satinwood, some including marquetry inlay or lacquerwork.
Our range of fine English and European antique bracket and mantel clocks date from the late 17th to 19th centuries. We stock examples by the great London makers but also the finest quality clocks by provincial makers. Clock cases were made in a range of woods with ebony, walnut, and mahogany the most popular, although marquetry inlays, satinwood and rosewood were widely used.
Our selection of British and European antique wall clocks date from the 17th to 19th century. We stock wall clocks in a variety of styles including brass lantern clocks, to painted wood tavern clocks as well as dial wall clocks and Vienna regulators. Wall Clocks vary in their complexity and casework but there can be no doubt they make a very definitive focal point for both the classic and minimalist interior of today.
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