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A fine mid 19th century gilt brass chronometer carriage timepiece Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London, 19622 2
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £25,000 inc. premium
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A fine mid 19th century gilt brass chronometer carriage timepiece
Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London, 19622
the case with facetted handle over large bevelled glazed panels, polished uprights and plain plinth, the glazed rear door secured by a screw through the plinth and set with twin shuttered winding squares engraved 'Set Hands' and 'Wind', the signed enamel Roman dial with outer minute track and recessed subsidiary seconds dial marked in Arabic ten second intervals, with good blued steel hands, enclosed by an engine turned mask of an undulating pattern within an angled sight ring, the movement with maintaining power to the chain fusee, the freesprung blued steel helical spring supporting the bimetallic staple balance of brass and blued steel with timing screws, to an Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, signed and numbered on the backplate Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London, 19622. Sold together with a gilt brass numbered key. 19cms (7ins) high. (2)
the case with facetted handle over large bevelled glazed panels, polished uprights and plain plinth, the glazed rear door secured by a screw through the plinth and set with twin shuttered winding squares engraved 'Set Hands' and 'Wind', the signed enamel Roman dial with outer minute track and recessed subsidiary seconds dial marked in Arabic ten second intervals, with good blued steel hands, enclosed by an engine turned mask of an undulating pattern within an angled sight ring, the movement with maintaining power to the chain fusee, the freesprung blued steel helical spring supporting the bimetallic staple balance of brass and blued steel with timing screws, to an Earnshaw type spring detent escapement, signed and numbered on the backplate Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London, 19622. Sold together with a gilt brass numbered key. 19cms (7ins) high. (2)
Footnotes
Similar staple balances are illustrated in Roberts, 'Carriage and other Travelling Clocks', 1993, figs 21-5,b; 21-13,d; 21-14 b and 21-16,e. and Allix and Bonnert, 'Carriage Clocks, their history and development' 1974, Plate IX/25.