Payne, London a boulle bracket clock: the eight-day duration, single fusee timepiece movement having an anchor escapement and engraved to the backplate Payne, 163 New Bond St., the round gilt-brass dial with raised decoration and having black Roman numerals to individual shaped cartouches, the enamelled centre signed Payne, 163 New Bond Street, London with blued steel moon hands, the waisted boulle case with engraved inlaid brass decoration to the maroon tortoiseshell, with applied brass mounts and surmounted by rococo decoration, with a glazed front door and sides, height 58cms.* Biography William Payne is first recorded at 62 South Moulton Street, London in 1816. By 1825 he had moved to 163 New Bond Street becoming William Payne & Company at that address in 1852.* Notes Ref Cecil Clutton (Author), G H Baillie (Author), C A Ilbert (Author), Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, Pub. Bloomsbury Books, London 1986.