74,500 CHF
VINER - EXCEPTIONAL ENGLISH CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH ORIGINAL OUTER BOX Viner, 235 Regent Street, London. Made circa 1830. Extremely fine and rare, rosewood, month-going with double powerreserve indications for both trains, quarter-striking carriage clock with perpetual calendar, pull-wind alarm and duplex escapement. Accompanied by the fine original rosewood travelling box. Rectangular rosewood, architectural form with moulded cornice, chamfered corners, moulded base with block feet, detachable chamfered top concealing a glazed aperture to view the balance, glazed front with gilt-brass fi let, back door with bowed inset pierced foliate brass grille for sound transmission, hinged brass handle fl ush-fi tting the top of the case, circular arbour on the right side for key-setting of the alarm. Silvered with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, twin power-reserve sectors showing state of wind for both trains, three silvered dials below for the date, days of the week and months, engine-turned gilt-brass mask. Blued steel poire hands. Rectangular gilt-brass plates with six pillars, both trains with fuse and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, perpetual calendar mechanism mounted on a further plate on the dial plate, jeweled underslung duplex escapement on a gilt platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator, striking the quarters with two hammers on two coiled gongs, pull-wind alarm train with a further hammer so
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-03-11