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CIRCA 1830
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A Continental great wheel striking keyhole skeleton clock
Circa 1830
The keyhole shaped brass frame with socle terminal resting on an ebonised wood circular base, foliate cast ormolu bezel to the annular white enamel Arabic dial with blued steel hands (lacking minute hand), the delicate high-count wheel train with single spring barrel and great wheel, the centre wheel carrying the countwheel with strike on a small bell carried under the movement train, pinwheel escapement with knife-edge suspended steel rod pendulum, lacking dome
17¼ in. 44 cm.) high
Circa 1830
The keyhole shaped brass frame with socle terminal resting on an ebonised wood circular base, foliate cast ormolu bezel to the annular white enamel Arabic dial with blued steel hands (lacking minute hand), the delicate high-count wheel train with single spring barrel and great wheel, the centre wheel carrying the countwheel with strike on a small bell carried under the movement train, pinwheel escapement with knife-edge suspended steel rod pendulum, lacking dome
17¼ in. 44 cm.) high
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