A VICTORIAN SANDERSWOOD TRAVELLING TIMEPIECE WITH ALARM

VULLIAMY, LONDON. NO. 1109, CIRCA 1835

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A VICTORIAN SANDERSWOOD TRAVELLING TIMEPIECE WITH ALARM
vulliamy, london. no. 1109, circa 1835
The dial with narrow silvered Roman chapter ring signed Vulliamy, London with finely pierced heart-shaped blued steel hands, the plain silvered centre with concentric alarm ring and brass alarm-set hand, the left winding hole by VIII for the going, the right winding hole with engraved arrow wind direction by IV and engraved on the chapter ring beside the hole wind alarm, alarm-set square at VI and engraved on the chapter ring with directional arrow set alarm, the mask engraved and chased with scrolling foliage in high relief, the five pillar single chain fusee movement with maintaining power, large gilt platform with underslung lever escapement, the gilt-brass balance wheel with peripheral steel timing weights, flat blued steel hair spring with Vulliamy's regulation slide and unusual bi-metallic compensation curb, the backplate engraved Vulliamy, London. 1109, subsidiary spring barrel for the alarm, the bell with unusual twin-hammer alarm strike system, the movement secured to the case by means of four substantial brass brackets, the well-proportioned case on block feet, with a vulliamy's detatchable stepped and chamfered top inlaid on the underside with a silver roundel engraved with an armorial crest
6¾in. (17cm.) high

Provenance

John Carlton Smith, Antiquarian Horology, No. 5, Vol. 15, September 1985, p. 426

Literature

Derek Roberts, Carriage and other Travelling clock, Schiffer, 1993, p. 259

Lot Essay

Another similar travelling clock by Vulliamy, numbered 1361 is illustrated in Charles Allix, Carriage Clocks, Woodbridge, 1989, p. 224, pl.IX/11
For further biographical notes on Vuillamy see lot 18

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