Lot 203

Vienna, Height 190 mm, circa 1825
An ornamental, detachable two-part coach clock with extremely rare double wheel duplex escapement in an ebonised wooden stand with Vienna 4/4 strike "Grande Sonnerie", repeater and alarm
Case: brass, firegilt, diameter 105 mm. Dial: silvered. Movm.: circular brass full plate movement, 4 barrels, 3 hammers / 3 gongs, double wheel duplex escapement, three-arm brass balance.
The drum-shaped engine-turned case with two glass-paned sides is resting on ball and eagle claw feet which in turn rest on an ebonised firegilt brass mounted base.
A nearly identical clock is illustrated and described in "Carriage and other Travelling Clocks" by Derek Roberts, Atglen 1993, p. 254.

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