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A SOUTH GERMAN ORMOLU STRIKING AND REPEATING TRAVEL CLOCK WITH ALARM
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A SOUTH GERMAN ORMOLU STRIKING AND REPEATING TRAVEL CLOCK WITH ALARM

HEINRICH SCHMIDTBAUER, BAMBERG. CIRCA 1740; THE ENAMEL DIALS REPLACED BY VONDERHEID, WIEN, CIRCA 1800

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A SOUTH GERMAN ORMOLU STRIKING AND REPEATING TRAVEL CLOCK WITH ALARM
HEINRICH SCHMIDTBAUER, BAMBERG. CIRCA 1740; THE ENAMEL DIALS REPLACED BY VONDERHEID, WIEN, CIRCA 1800
The rectangular foliate engraved case with rectangular glazed side panels, door to the reverse with two bells, repoussé dial plate with white enamel dial signed VONDERHEID.RENOVATUM.A.WIEN., Schl=Nicht/Schlagt regulation above, repeating via side button next to 8, short duration twin barrel chain fusee movement with balance spring verge escapement, pierced and engraved balance cock inset with a ruby, the backplate with champlevé alarm disc inscribed Spath/Früh, striking the hours with two hammers on one bell, the alarm striking with one hammer on the second bell, signed on the backplate Heinrich Schmidtbauer/Bamberg, with leather travelling case; winding key
18 cm. high (handle up)
注意事項
Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,001. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

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Heinrich Schmidtbauer or Schmittbauer, Bamberg (1738-1765). Valentin Vonderheid, recorded working in Vienna from circa 1800-1847, see also Jürgen Abeler, Meister der Uhrmacherkunst, Wuppertal 1977, pp.562 and 636.
For travel clocks or so-called Reiseuhren of comparable outline please see: Renate Möller, Uhren von der frühen Eisenuhr bis zur Armbanduhr, München, 2005, p. 97, for a clock by Johann Schmidtbauer with a silver dial, circa 1740 and H.M. Vehmeyer, Clocks their origin and development, Vol I., Gent 2004, nr. G49, p.196-197 for a clock made in Augsburg, circa 1730.