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A good third quarter of the 19th century mahogany cased spring driven wall regulator W G Watts Wandsworth, the backplate numbered 696
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,500 inc. premium
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A good third quarter of the 19th century mahogany cased spring driven wall regulator
W G Watts Wandsworth, the backplate numbered 696
the arched case with long glazed door, concave base terminating in a carved foliate finial, the eight inch signed silvered Roman dial with minute track enclosing the matching blued steel hands, the chain fuse movement with tapering plates united by four tapering pillars, the deadbeat escapement with maintaining power and half-second pendulum with cylindrical bob 80cms (31ins) high
the arched case with long glazed door, concave base terminating in a carved foliate finial, the eight inch signed silvered Roman dial with minute track enclosing the matching blued steel hands, the chain fuse movement with tapering plates united by four tapering pillars, the deadbeat escapement with maintaining power and half-second pendulum with cylindrical bob 80cms (31ins) high
Footnotes
W.G. Watts is listed as working in Wandsworth from 1862-1866. Similar wall regulators are illustrated in Roberts, 'English Precision Pendulum Clocks', Schiffer 2003, figs 23-4 and 23-5a)b) and c) it is postulated that most of these wall regulators were infact made by Condliff of Liverpool.