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A George III ebonised striking small table clock with silent verge escapement and quarter repeat

BENJAMIN VULLIAMY , LONDON, NO. 215. CIRCA 1790

細節

A George III ebonised striking small table clock with silent verge escapement and quarter repeat
Benjamin Vulliamy , London, No. 215. Circa 1790
The case with brass handle to shallow inverted bell top, glazed sides, brass-lined front door with foliate pierced quarter frets and a brass escutcheon, the base on brass block feet, the breakarch silvered engraved dial signed Vulliamy, London, flanked by subsidiary rings for strike/silent and pendulum regulation, Roman and Arabic chapter ring with finely pierced blued steel hands, mock pendulum and calendar apertures to the centre, the dial plate screwed to four posts riveted to the front plate of the movement with thick rectangular brass plates secured by five front-pinned brass pillars, twin fusees with wire lines, the going train with having silent verge escapement with gut pallets, hour strike on a single bell with pull quarter repeat on a row of six bells, the repeat pulley planted on the backplate signed Vulliamy, London, No. 215 within a foliage engraved wreath, the pendulum spring suspended from the regulation arm between the plates and with folding securing block beneath the signature
14¼in. (36cm.) high

來源

The Albert Odmark Collection, sold in these rooms, 11 March, 2005, lot 444

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拍品專文

Benjamin Vulliamy, 1775-1820 made several clocks with silent verge escapements. Vulliamy no doubt used the silent verge as an added marketing tool by emphasizing its versatility as a clock that could be used downstairs during the day and bedside by night. The two most common methods of 'silencing' verge pallets were either to employ gut lines or flexible weak springs. The latter had the advantage of being harder wearing and adjustable by depthing screw but arguably the gut line was just as effective because by the time the gut needed to be replaced the clock was due a service anyway.