拍品 51
51
A Continental early iron two-train turret clock with double-hour strike
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A Continental early iron two-train turret clock with double-hour strike

UNSIGNED, POSSIBLY ITALIAN CIRCA 1650

細節
A Continental early iron two-train turret clock with double-hour strike
Unsigned, possibly Italian circa 1650
With end-to-end trains, wedged frame with splayed feet, both trains wth hard wood barrels, the going train with later anchor escapement (probably originally with verge and foliot), later brass collets, nag's head let-off on the going barrel to the strike train with double-hour strike via a twice-12 countwheel, chamfered crossings to the going train great wheel
THE FRAME: 32in. x 22¼in. x 26¼in. (81cm. x 56.5cm. x 67cm.)
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拍品專文

The present timepiece was almost certainly made pre-pendulum. Evidence to support this lies not only with the early style of the frame but also a tell-tale vacant hole in the centre bar which would probably have originally been used for the potance of a verge pivot for the original foliot escapement.
The use of double hour strike was a common practice on the Continent but it was rarely used by English clockmakers