Lot 6
6
Tiffany Never-wind. An American gilt-brass battery-electric torsion timepiece, circa 1920
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Tiffany Never-wind. An American gilt-brass battery-electric torsion timepiece, circa 1920

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Tiffany Never-wind. An American gilt-brass battery-electric torsion timepiece, circa 1920
The enamel dial signed TIFFANY/Neverwind and TIFFANY NEVER-WIND CLOCK CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S.A. PAT.MARCH 8,-1904, now under plastic dome -- 12¼ in. (31 cm.) high over dome; and
TIFFANY NEVER-WIND. AN AMERICAN CHROME-PLATED BATTERY-ELECTRIC TORSION TIMEPIECE, CIRCA 1920, now under plastic dome -- 9¾ in. (25 cm.) high over dome (2)
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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Alan and Rita Shenton, Collectable Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, p.374; Crum & Keller ed., 150 Years of Electric Horology, NAWCC Chapter 125, 1992, p.73.
The Tiffany Never-Wind was patented in 1901 by George Steele Tiffany. Originally based in New York city, the company moved to Buffalo circa 1904 and then finally to Dunkirk, N.Y. The movement is impulsed on each turn of the torsion pendulum. See also lot 8.

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