AN EBONISED STRIKING TURNTABLE CLOCK

THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT LATE 17TH CENTURY WITH RESTORATIONS, THE CASE LATE 20TH CENTURY BY H.G.HAMMOND

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AN EBONISED STRIKING TURNTABLE CLOCK
THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT LATE 17TH CENTURY WITH RESTORATIONS, THE CASE LATE 20TH CENTURY BY H.G.HAMMOND
The architectural case with flambeau finials, brass-mounted columns to the angles, the brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman hours, Arabic five minutes, the matted centre with date aperture and alarm ring, blued-steel hands, cherub head spandrels, the eight-day two-train movement with gut line fusees, re-instated tic-tac escapemenet and maintaining power, eight latched pillars and split front plate, the dial also latched
17¼ in. (43.7 cm.) high overall; 15½ in. (39.4 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The case for this clock is likely to have been inspired by early Fromanteel clocks. See Exhibition Catalogue, The First Twelve Years of The Pendulum Clock, London, Ronald A. Lee Galleries, February 1969, No. 11, Pls. 31-34 and No. 25, Pl. 77.

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