21,600 CHF
Miniature Quarter-Striking Ormolu Traveling Clock Ios. Weisfhaubt a Carlsbad. Made circa 1760. Extremely fine and equally rare, early miniature, three-train, quarter-striking and repeating ormolu traveling clock with calendar. Gilt bronze, waisted, finely chased with foliate, rocaille and flower decoration, folding handle at the top, pierced lattice side frets, gilt bronze bezel. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer calendar, outermost minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals. Gilt brass beetle hour and minute hands, blued steel calendar hand. Shaped to fit the case, gilt brass, full plate with engraved scrollwork border, cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain for the going train, verge escapement with plain brass three-arm balance mounted vertically on the backplate, short balance spring, pierced scroll gilt brass cock with polished steel endplate, silver regulation dial above, striking on an underslung bell with two hammers for the quarters and a further hammer for the hours, the striking train with separate fixed barrels for the hour striking and the quarter-striking, strike/silent lever beneath the bezel in the dial plate. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 15 x 10 x 7 cm. Notes This exquisite and extremely rare clock is of very high quality and unusually small size. It was certainly meant as a traveling clock because of the use of a balance rather than a pendulum. Before the advent of the carriage clock such timepieces were usually in the form of miniature Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
