James Stratton
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Lot 93*
A rare mid-18th century Swiss gilt wood quarter striking table clock with alarm, enamel dial and 'Chevalier de Bethune'-type escapement P. Jaquet Droz, Chaux de Fonds
22 June 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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A rare mid-18th century Swiss gilt wood quarter striking table clock with alarm, enamel dial and 'Chevalier de Bethune'-type escapement
P. Jaquet Droz, Chaux de Fonds
the caddy top with handle and cone finials over a further four finials, long shaped glazed side windows and a moulded base, the wood gesso-covered and decorated with matting and wriggle-work on turned brass feet, the 7.5inch one-piece white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, brass alarm-setting disc and blued steel hands, signed in the strike/silent subsidiary dial above XII, framed by well-cast foliate spandrels, the plates united by four turned pillars pinned through the backplate, the two large spring barrels with chain drive to pair of squat fusees, the going train terminating in a Chevalier de Bethune-type escapement with a 'scape wheel of 8 teeth cocked on the backplate now receiving impulse via a shaped steel block set on an arbor with a toothed rack meshing with another (in the style of a mole's foot) mounted on the crutch arbor (the current steel block a probable replacement for the original Chevalier de Bethune pallets), the strike train with high count pinions striking the quarters and hours on a pair of bells via vertical hammers, the alarm with separate spring barrel wound from the rear and sounding on a separate bell with internal T-hammer, the striking and repeating work in polished steel mounted on the backplate. Ticking and striking. 51cms (20ins) high.
the caddy top with handle and cone finials over a further four finials, long shaped glazed side windows and a moulded base, the wood gesso-covered and decorated with matting and wriggle-work on turned brass feet, the 7.5inch one-piece white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, brass alarm-setting disc and blued steel hands, signed in the strike/silent subsidiary dial above XII, framed by well-cast foliate spandrels, the plates united by four turned pillars pinned through the backplate, the two large spring barrels with chain drive to pair of squat fusees, the going train terminating in a Chevalier de Bethune-type escapement with a 'scape wheel of 8 teeth cocked on the backplate now receiving impulse via a shaped steel block set on an arbor with a toothed rack meshing with another (in the style of a mole's foot) mounted on the crutch arbor (the current steel block a probable replacement for the original Chevalier de Bethune pallets), the strike train with high count pinions striking the quarters and hours on a pair of bells via vertical hammers, the alarm with separate spring barrel wound from the rear and sounding on a separate bell with internal T-hammer, the striking and repeating work in polished steel mounted on the backplate. Ticking and striking. 51cms (20ins) high.
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