Lewis Walduck
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Lot 109Y
A rare early 19th century brass strung rosewood wheel barometer with timepiece Richard Ganthony, 83 Cheapside, London
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,152 inc. premium
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A rare early 19th century brass strung rosewood wheel barometer with timepiece
Richard Ganthony, 83 Cheapside, London
The swan neck pediment and urn finial over a waisted body set with a detachable hygrometer, mercury thermometer, 5-inch signed white enamel Roman dial with matching blued steel Breguet style hands, level and 13-inch silvered barometer dial offering seven weather predictions within its 28–31-inch scale divided to 100ths of an inch, with blued steel hand and brass recording pointer. The timepiece movement with bespoke rectangular plates united by turned pillars, gut fusee to an anchor escapement and silk suspended 6.5 inch pendulum with unique pendulum impulse and locking bar activated by a brass square to the front of the case below the dial. 128cms (50.5ins) high.
The swan neck pediment and urn finial over a waisted body set with a detachable hygrometer, mercury thermometer, 5-inch signed white enamel Roman dial with matching blued steel Breguet style hands, level and 13-inch silvered barometer dial offering seven weather predictions within its 28–31-inch scale divided to 100ths of an inch, with blued steel hand and brass recording pointer. The timepiece movement with bespoke rectangular plates united by turned pillars, gut fusee to an anchor escapement and silk suspended 6.5 inch pendulum with unique pendulum impulse and locking bar activated by a brass square to the front of the case below the dial. 128cms (50.5ins) high.
Footnotes
Richard Ganthony, started his apprenticeship in 1785 and joined the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1794, later serving as Master in 1828. Between 1803 and 1825, he operated from Cannon and subsequently Lombard Streets before relocating to 83 Cheapside in 1825, where he was joined in business by his son, Richard Pinfold Ganthony (F.J. Britten, Old Clocks and Watches & Their Makers, London, 1904, p. 609; G.H. Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, vol. 1, Colchester, 1947, p. 118).
Provenance:
Christie's South Kensington, Ronald Phillips Ltd – Making Room, 2 July 2014, lot 243.
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