A German mahogany month-going wall regulator, the white enamel Roman two-piece dial signed in the centre Gebhard Bosch Lübeck with subsidiary seconds, pierced steel hour and minute hands, the movement with tapered shouldered plates and having four double-screwed pillars, massive chain-driven fusee and barrel, end-capped centre and third wheels, the backplate engraved Gebhard Bosch Lübeck 1877, the escapement consisting of an arbour mounted on the backplate driven by an intermediary wheel from the contrate and extending up above the plates to form a T-bar with extended arms strung with a double-looped line interacting with the point of the pendulum above, the bob formed as a terestrial globe signed E.Schotte & Co. Berlin, the steel rod suspended from a clever universal joint with adjustable counter-balance weight above, the case with foliate carved bracket volute to the base, glazed door and sides, the backboard venered in burr walnut, the arched hood applied with carved wood foliate cresting and with finials to the angles

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A German mahogany month-going wall regulator, the white enamel Roman two-piece dial signed in the centre Gebhard Bosch Lübeck with subsidiary seconds, pierced steel hour and minute hands, the movement with tapered shouldered plates and having four double-screwed pillars, massive chain-driven fusee and barrel, end-capped centre and third wheels, the backplate engraved Gebhard Bosch Lübeck 1877, the escapement consisting of an arbour mounted on the backplate driven by an intermediary wheel from the contrate and extending up above the plates to form a T-bar with extended arms strung with a double-looped line interacting with the point of the pendulum above, the bob formed as a terestrial globe signed E.Schotte & Co. Berlin, the steel rod suspended from a clever universal joint with adjustable counter-balance weight above, the case with foliate carved bracket volute to the base, glazed door and sides, the backboard venered in burr walnut, the arched hood applied with carved wood foliate cresting and with finials to the angles
54in. (137cm.) high

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Family history has it that this extraordinary clock was one of three made by Gebhard Bosch, one for each of his children as a wedding gift. The present example was given to Marie Bosch who married a Gustav Vogel in London andthen moved to Scotland in 1892 and set up a saussage factory. The clock had remained on the wall in the same house until very recently.
The type of escapement used is most ingenious. The 'line' with which the point of the pendulum interacts with, is, according to family lore, meant to come only from the hair of an Oriental lady! The globe on the pendulum is certainly contemporary to the clock, Schötte & Co. were well known fine quality scientific instrument makers. The universal joint one can only assume was devised by the maker.

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