A FINE EBONISED ARCHITECTURAL MINIATURE LONGCASE TIMEPIECE WITH EARLY TIC-TAC ESCAPEMENT AND ALARMTHE MOVEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN WISE, LONDON, CIRCA 1673 AND LATERThe four double-balter turned pillar movement with plates measuring 6.375 by 4 inches enclosing four-wheel train with the earliest form of tic-tac escapement regulated by lenticular bob half-seconds pendulum, the right hand side fitted with a transverse weight-driven alarm mechanism with verge crownwheel and vertically pivoted hammer for sounding on a bell mounted set above the plates, fitted with a 7 inch square gilt brass dial with Arabic hour engraved silvered alarm setting disc to the matted centre within applied narrow silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with cruciform half hour markers and Arabic five minutes within the minute track, with fine sculpted steel hands and gilt winged cherub mask spandrels to angles within line border interrupted by engraved text John Wise Londini fecit to lower edge, in a finely executed case most probably constructed ing period elements with rising hood incorporating triangular pediment over crisply moulded projecting cornice, Knibb-style alternating scroll-and-circle pierced alarm sound fret to frieze, and Corinthian three-quarter columns with gilt caps and bases flanking fixed the dial aperture, the sides with rectangular glazed apertures and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards rising past the lintel to meet the cornice overhang at the rear, the trunk with convex throat over 38.5 inch slender rectangular door applied with two long around a central short raised panels within a half-round moulded surround, on stepped ogee top plinth base decorated with high-position step to the box.174cm (68.5ins) high, 32cm (12.5ins) wide, 20.8cm (8ins) deep.John Wise senior is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1624 and apprenticed to Peter Closon through Thomas Dawson in 1638, gaining his Freedom in October 1646. He apparently lived in Warwick 1653-68 where he repaired the clocks at St. Nicholas and St. Mary`s churches, the latter providing the venue for the baptism of three of his children. He moved back to London in 1669 where he was re-admitted to the Clockmakers`pany by redemption. He took many apprentices including no less than six of his sons; Richard (Free 1679), John (Free 1683), Thomas (Free 1686), Joseph (Free 1687), Peter (Free 1693) and Luke (Free 1694). He worked from 'neer the Popeshead in Moorfields' and was recorded as a recant in 1682/3. John Wise senior died in 1690 and was buried at St. Andrew's, Holborn.The double-balter form of the movement pillars of the current lot can be directlypared to those of a table clock by John Wise sold in these rooms on 6th September 2011 (lot 151) for 46,000 hammer and on a month-duration longcase clock (case later) with 9.5inch dial sold at Cheffins in their Fine Sale 11th September 2019 (lot 427) for 6,000. In addition t