Lot 54

Aksel Janniche, Kjöbenhavn

A Copenhagen seconds precision regulator of high quality, with regulator dial

This representative longcase clock, more than two meters high, with a solid Glashuette case has a high-quality Lenzkirch movement from the 1-million series. The chaton bearings, the solid Graham anchor with inlaid jewels and the heavy compensation pendulum with the hopper for regulating weights demonstrate the high standard of the regulator. The pendulum according Tiede / Grossmann also has Strasser's lever discharge, as described on a similar Lenzkirch clock in volume 4 of the PPU series by Jürgen Ermert (p. 553). With his own signature, our clock was sold by the Copenhagen watchmaker Axel Janniche, who was born in 1868 and died in 1939. He established his store at Skindergade 44 in 1896 and, in addition to langcase clocks and pocket watches, supplied clocks for the Copenhagen streetcars; one example can be seen in the Skjoldenæsholm Tramway Museum. (Under his successor Gunnar Wibrow, the clock store was the meeting place of a resistance group against the German occupation and the scene of the owner's assassination shortly before the end of the war).