Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 62TP
A good mid 19th century mahogany longcase regulator A. Bowman, London. The movement plates stamped HM 6307.
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,120 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Clocks specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
A good mid 19th century mahogany longcase regulator
A. Bowman, London. The movement plates stamped HM 6307.
The case with shallow arch over a rippled moulding further set with ebonised quadrants and panels to the sides, the canted front angles echoed on the trunk which is set with a bevelled glass door framed in brass and revealing the weight, pendulum and beat scale, on a panel base with applied moulding and apron. The 12 inch circular silvered dial behind a heavy bevelled glass framed in brass, with outer Arabic minute band enclosing the large subsidiaries for running seconds (with Observatory marks) and Roman hours, with three blued steel hands.
The substantial tall shaped plates stamped HM and numbered 6307united by six knopped pillars and surmounted by a heavy brass 'platform' spanning across the top and with three pairs of notches to the far end from which to support the pendulum, the four wheel train each of five crossings and with adjustable end-stops, maintaining power and terminating in a deadbeat escapement and long steel crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against a silvered beat scale, driven by a brass weight. Together with a hood key, trunk key and crank winder. 199cms (78.5ins) high.
The case with shallow arch over a rippled moulding further set with ebonised quadrants and panels to the sides, the canted front angles echoed on the trunk which is set with a bevelled glass door framed in brass and revealing the weight, pendulum and beat scale, on a panel base with applied moulding and apron. The 12 inch circular silvered dial behind a heavy bevelled glass framed in brass, with outer Arabic minute band enclosing the large subsidiaries for running seconds (with Observatory marks) and Roman hours, with three blued steel hands.
The substantial tall shaped plates stamped HM and numbered 6307united by six knopped pillars and surmounted by a heavy brass 'platform' spanning across the top and with three pairs of notches to the far end from which to support the pendulum, the four wheel train each of five crossings and with adjustable end-stops, maintaining power and terminating in a deadbeat escapement and long steel crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against a silvered beat scale, driven by a brass weight. Together with a hood key, trunk key and crank winder. 199cms (78.5ins) high.
Footnotes
There is little recorded information on Arthur Hart Bowman, but he is noted as being active in London in 1881
A similar clock is illustrated on page 227 of Roberts English Precision clocks by Markwick Markham.