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19TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ALTERATIONS
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A FRENCH ORMOLU, BRASS AND SIENA MARBLE STRIKING MONTH-GOING WEIGHT-DRIVEN SKELETON CLOCK
19TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ALTERATIONS
CASE: oval marble plinth with brass-lined apertures for the weights DIALS: replaced time dial with ormolu bezel to enamel chapter ring, guilloché turned gilt centre with subsidiary seconds disc, enamel later year calendar ring below revolving against fixed blued steel hand MOVEMENT: shouldered plates with six pillars, pinwheel escapement, knife-edge suspension for replaced temperature-compensated bimetallic pendulum swinging above, countwheel strike on bell; the upper plates replaced; on ebonised later plinth and under later glass dome, two brass weights
25¼ in. (64 cm.) high, excluding later base and dome; 11¾ in. (30 cm.) wide; 5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) deep
19TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ALTERATIONS
CASE: oval marble plinth with brass-lined apertures for the weights DIALS: replaced time dial with ormolu bezel to enamel chapter ring, guilloché turned gilt centre with subsidiary seconds disc, enamel later year calendar ring below revolving against fixed blued steel hand MOVEMENT: shouldered plates with six pillars, pinwheel escapement, knife-edge suspension for replaced temperature-compensated bimetallic pendulum swinging above, countwheel strike on bell; the upper plates replaced; on ebonised later plinth and under later glass dome, two brass weights
25¼ in. (64 cm.) high, excluding later base and dome; 11¾ in. (30 cm.) wide; 5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Norman Langmaid collection
Literature
D. Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, 1989, p. 49, figs. 36 i and ii.
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