A FINE AND RARE ENGLISH STRIKING AND REPEATING CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE CLOCK
| Starting bid | £12,000 |
| Estimate | £12,000 - £18,000 |
| Absentee deadline | Dec 3, 2025, 12:00:00 PM |
By Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London, No. 22006, circa 1857
The substantial gilt-brass case with a shaped foliate-cast handle above a recessed top inset with a rectangular deeply bevelled glass panel, the 3in circular white enamel dial with seconds subsidiary at the XII, blued steel hands and signed as above, within an engine-turned gilt mask, the sides each with a deeply bevelled glass panel, the back with a lockable lift-out deeply bevelled glass door, with three shuttered gilt-brass holes for winding and time setting , the twin train chain fusée movement with maintaining power, four screwed pillars, the backplate fully signed, with a large gilt-brass platform, side guard, freesprung blued steel helical spring, cut bi-metallic compensated balance with circular heat compensated weights with fine adjustment screws weights, diamond endstone, Earnshaw spring detent escapement, striking the hours on a blued steel coiled gong, with strike / silent lever on the backplate
23cm high (handle up)
The use of the side guard to the escapement platform is designed to protect it from air currents occasioned by the strike fly.
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 4 July 2007, lot 23 (£22,800)
Cyril Fish, thence by descent
EXHIBITED:
Rare Carriage Clocks, Asprey & Company Ltd, New Bond Street, London, 26 November to 17 December 1975, item 76.
LITERATURE:
Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, Carriage Clocks, Their History and Development, Woodbridge 1974, p. 253. The clock and balance are illustrated Plate IX/30, p. 259 and IX/31, p. 260.
Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent and his successors, London 1977, p. 684.
CONDITION REPORT
The case appears to have its original mercurial gilding. The dial has a very minor hairline from the centre to the base of the seconds subsidiary. The glasses are not damaged. The clock strikes. The going train fusée chain has broken and the small length which attaches to the barrel is sitting on the base plate. In setting the maintaining power the clock ticks.
