A Viennese rosewood month-going dachl-uhr
Johann Fink, Wien. Circa 1835
The six-glass case with concave moulding beneath a rectangular door and architectural pediment, the white enamel dial signed Johann Fink IN WIEN within the Roman chapter ring with blued steel beetle and poker hands, the movement with A-shaped brass plates with deadbeat escapement, wood-rod pendulum and brass-cased weight, later seatboard
2ft.11in. (89cm.) high
Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Frederick Kaltenböck Die Wiener Uhr, Callwey, Munich 1988, pp.182-207.
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