Lot 110
A FINE AND RARE SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN EBONY QUARTER STRIKING, CENTRE SECONDS TABLE REGULATOR WITH RARE VISIBLE DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND COMPENSATED PENDULUM Franz Moritz Goedecker, Frankfurt 1833
11 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,500 inc. premium
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A FINE AND RARE SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY GERMAN EBONY QUARTER STRIKING, CENTRE SECONDS TABLE REGULATOR WITH RARE VISIBLE DETENT ESCAPEMENT AND COMPENSATED PENDULUM
Franz Moritz Goedecker, Frankfurt 1833
The portico case surmounted by a finely moulded entablature framed by shell and scroll ormolu mounts, on turned columns with composite capitals and laurel-wreathed bases, on a rectangular plinth with matching mounts on block feet, the signed 5.25 inch silvered Roman dial with centre seconds and pierced and shaped hands, within a deep foliate-cast ormolu bezel, the recessed dial centre revealing the intricately worked coupe perdu escapement with twin detents, jewelled pivots and four counterpoised bars to the going train, the compensated pendulum with a polished steel core between sliding brass rods mounted on pivoted arms, in turn set upon a sprung block allowing for expansion and contraction, the circular movement plates with flattened lower edges, and rack and snail quarter strikework sounding on two bells, the backplate inscribed 'Meisterstück von F.M.Gödecker in Franfurt M. Anno 1833' 64cm (25.25in)
The portico case surmounted by a finely moulded entablature framed by shell and scroll ormolu mounts, on turned columns with composite capitals and laurel-wreathed bases, on a rectangular plinth with matching mounts on block feet, the signed 5.25 inch silvered Roman dial with centre seconds and pierced and shaped hands, within a deep foliate-cast ormolu bezel, the recessed dial centre revealing the intricately worked coupe perdu escapement with twin detents, jewelled pivots and four counterpoised bars to the going train, the compensated pendulum with a polished steel core between sliding brass rods mounted on pivoted arms, in turn set upon a sprung block allowing for expansion and contraction, the circular movement plates with flattened lower edges, and rack and snail quarter strikework sounding on two bells, the backplate inscribed 'Meisterstück von F.M.Gödecker in Franfurt M. Anno 1833' 64cm (25.25in)
Footnotes
Franz Moritz Goedecker is listed in the Staats-und Addresshandbuch der freien Stadt Frankfurt as a 'Stadt-Uhrmacher' living in gr. Kornmarkt 25 in 1852. This recording is nearly 20 years after this clock was made and it is not inconceivable that this was his 'Masterpiece' clock.
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