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An Austrian style marble and gilt-brass weight-driven skeleton timepiece
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An Austrian style marble and gilt-brass weight-driven skeleton timepiece

20TH CENTURY

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An Austrian style marble and gilt-brass weight-driven skeleton timepiece
20th Century
The narrow white enamel Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, two wheel train with central great wheel with demi-lune crossings, the collet screwed to the barrel with block and tackle suspended brass-cased weight wound via a spring loaded ratchet system, the dead beat escapement with large polished steel pallets, knife-edge suspension, the short-duration movement supported on two white marble columns above a circular veined green marble base, under glass dome; double glass rod pendulum, brass weight
24½ in. (54.5 cm.) high, excluding pendulum
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, 1989, pp.148-157.

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