A RARE AND UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHRONOMETER SKELETON TIMEPIECE WITH ONE-IN-PASSING STRIKE
| Starting bid | £800 |
| Estimate | £800 - £1,200 |
| Absentee deadline | Dec 3, 2025, 12:00:00 PM |
By Andrew Black, Alloa, mid 19th Century
Surmounted by a bell, struck via polished steel linkage, above slender shaped frame, good wheel work of five crossings, the bi-metallic compensated balance with blued steel helical spring, above the projecting detent and escape wheel, with chain fusée and maintaining power, slender seconds ring above the signed chapter ring with blued steel moon hands, the barrel held within a frame of four fluted columns, on a block base, mounted on a white marble, velvet-lined plinth, with a glass dome (damaged)
The clock 36cm high
Andrew Black, Alloa, Clackmannanshire was active from 1830 till his death in August 1872, Cf. Old Scottish Clockmakers from 1453-1850, Edinburgh 1921.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge 1987, illustrates a virtually identical one by Black, see p. 190.
CONDITION REPORT
The dome is cracked. The movement is not ticking and requires a service. No key.
