ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS OF HANDSWORTH. CIRCA 1860

细节

An unusual Victorian brass striking skeleton clock with gravity escapement
Attributed to Evans of Handsworth. Circa 1860
The tracery-pierced brass frame secured by six brass pillars with blued steel screws, the going train with spring barrel and chain fusee, maintaining power, wheel train with six crossings, five-leg gravity escapement planted on the backplate with adjustable weights at the top of the gravity arms, original wood-rod pendulum with heavy brass-cased navette-shaped bob, the strike train with hour rack strike on a steel gong of circular section to the rear and passing the half-hour strike on a bell above the plates, the Gothic-pierced silvered dial with blued steel fleur-de-lys hands and wide diameter narrow silvered seconds ring at VI, the movement resting on an oval marble base; with associated glass dome
22½ in. (57 cm.) high

出版

Roberts (Derek), British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, pp. 184, illustrated figs. 5/4a, b & c

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased at Sotheby's, London, October 30, 1964, lot 14, by Malcolm Gardner.

Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks:
This clock is in many ways similar to his skeleton clocks with pendulum controlled detented escapements. The dials are virtually identical with large seconds ring at six o'clock; the fusees also are mounted high up with a long run of the chain from the barrel. A wood-rod pendulum is employed with adjustable brass plates fitted to either side where the pins of the gravity arm engage. A refinement not usually found on gravity escapements is the adjustable weights provided at the top of the gravity arms. A further improvement is that the bottoms of the arms may be adjusted merely by slackening-off the locking screw, which greatly simplifies the setting up of the clock as on most longcase regulators employing a gravity escapement the arms have to be bent.