QUARE, DANIEL

born c. 1648, , Somersetshire?, Eng. died March 21, 1724, [1723, Old Style], Croydon, Surrey English clockmaker, inventor of a repeating watch mechanism (1680) that sounded the nearest hour and quarter hour when the owner pushed or squeezed a pin protruding from the case. Quare's invention was the forerunner of the modern alarm watch that can be set to sound at a predetermined time. 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, becoming a master of the company in 1708, and was appointed clockmaker to King George I.