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A FINE MID 19TH CENTURY GILT BRASS CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE WITH STAPLE BALANCE Dent, London, number 12107
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,562.50 inc. premium
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A FINE MID 19TH CENTURY GILT BRASS CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE WITH STAPLE BALANCE
Dent, London, number 12107
The case with shaped handle centred by ribbon-tied foliage over a large bevelled glass panel and deep angled cornice, all four sides with heavy bevelled glass panels, the rear cover removable via a hidden screw in the base, and inset with a pair of circular brass shuttered winding- and hand-setting apertures, on a moulded plinth base, the signed white enamel dial with outer minute track enclosing the Roman numerals and fine Breguet-style hands, the subsidiary seconds dial intersecting the number XII, set within a pierced and engraved mask of foliate and floral scrolls, the signed and numbered chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power, the diamond endstone over a freesprung blued steel helical spring terminating in a brass and steel staple balance to an Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement. Ticking, together with a numbered winding/handsetting key. 20cms (8ins) high.
20cms (8ins) high.
The case with shaped handle centred by ribbon-tied foliage over a large bevelled glass panel and deep angled cornice, all four sides with heavy bevelled glass panels, the rear cover removable via a hidden screw in the base, and inset with a pair of circular brass shuttered winding- and hand-setting apertures, on a moulded plinth base, the signed white enamel dial with outer minute track enclosing the Roman numerals and fine Breguet-style hands, the subsidiary seconds dial intersecting the number XII, set within a pierced and engraved mask of foliate and floral scrolls, the signed and numbered chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power, the diamond endstone over a freesprung blued steel helical spring terminating in a brass and steel staple balance to an Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement. Ticking, together with a numbered winding/handsetting key. 20cms (8ins) high.
20cms (8ins) high.
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Comparative literature:
A very similar example, number 693 is illustrated in Allix and Bonnert:'Carriage Clocks, Their History and Development', Antique Collectors Club 1974, page 255, which also features Dent's patent balance. Another example, number 12354 is illustrated in Derek Roberts 'Carriage and other Travelling Clocks', Schiffer 1993, page 305, which differs only in the detail of the mask.