Bernard Geissler, Vienna
The 5.75 inch square case surmounted by a ring handle incorporating the steel repeat button (repeating both the hours and quarters on a single press) over a moulded edge and foliate mounts to the corners framing the palmette-cast bezel and enamel Roman chapter ring signed BERN GEISSLER IN WIEN, with matching blued steel time hands and a tapered alarm-setting hand to the engine turned centre, the four-train movement wound through the dial, with circular plates, with duplex escapement striking and repeating via three polished steel hammers with O-shaped heads on a pair of circular-section coiled blued steel gongs mounted on a shaped bridge spanning the rear. 14.5cms (5.75is) wide.

Footnotes

Bernard Geissler Senior (1789-1854) began working circa 1818.

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