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A Victorian giant gilt-brass eight day chronometer carriage timepiece
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A Victorian giant gilt-brass eight day chronometer carriage timepiece

DENT, LONDON, NO.702. CIRCA 1845

細節
A Victorian giant gilt-brass eight day chronometer carriage timepiece
Dent, London, No.702. Circa 1845
The case with recessed 'funnel' top and leaf-cast tie to folding square section handle, bevelled glasses, with matted and engraved foliate mask to white enamel Roman chapter disc, subsidiary seconds at XII, signed DENT/LONDON, blued steel moon hands, the movement with single chain fusee, maintaining power, gilt platform with underslung Earnshaw-type chronometer escapement, Dent's staple balance and blued steel helical spring, sliding rear glass with release to the base, the back plate with repeat signature and numbered 702; with original gilt-tooled green leather travel case, case key
7 in. (18 cm.) high, handle down
出版
Illustrated, Hans Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers, from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham 1763-1862, Stuttgart, 1997, pp.697-700
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, Carriage Clocks, Their History and Development, Woodbridge, 1974, p.255, pls.IX/21
Derek Roberts, Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Pennsylvania, 1993, p.305
Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent and his Successors, Ramsgate, 1977, pp.150-185

A Dent chronometer carriage clock of closely related design (No.12383) was sold Sotheby's London, Clocks, Watches, Barometers, Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments, 14 December 2006, lot 21. Edward Dent (1790-1853) patented his 'staple' balance in 1842, not long after setting up in business on his own at 82 Strand.