63,250 CHF
Precision Timekeeper with 3 ComplicationsCharles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, circa 1845. Very fine and rare double-train mahogany alarm carriage clock striking hours and half hours and repeating hours. Rectangular, molded cornice supported on dentils, molded base with bun feet, gilt brass handle, alarm setting baton and its winding aperture in the right panel, hinged door at the back. Gilt brass entirely engraved with stylized foliage, radial Roman hour chapter, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands, gilt index alarm setting hand. Rectangular, brass full plate, fusee and chain on both trains, going train with maintaining power, platform with lateral lever escapement, bimetllic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, striking and pull repeating on gong, alarm on a bell.Signed on the movement.Dim. Height 23 cm, width 15 cm. Notes Charles Frodsham, (1810-1871).Was the most celebrated of the numerous Frodsham family of watchmakers and was a prominent maker of very high grade chronometers and watches. In 1868 he devised a form of electrical contact for taking signals for chronometers. The company he founded continued after his death. At some time before the middle of the last century, the company began making lever escapement and chronometer escapement watches of the very highest quality and continued to do so until the outbreak of war in 1939. For the851 exhibition, they introduced a three-quarter plate calibre which they marked "AD.Fmsz", which Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
