Large brass and ebonised wood skeleton clock, very likely a
masterpiece or exhibition piece, Liège, circa 1830.
Mouvement suspended from the two long conical columns surmounted
by armillary spheres, "églomisé" glass dial with gilt arabic
numerals and transparent centre allowing for a visible movement,
6 turned conical feet on balls.
Front knife-edge suspension and rear pin-wheel escapement with
60 pins placed alternatively on either side of the escape wheel,
very ingenious grill pendulum with counterweight on top, allowing
it to beat the seconds, the Sun mask with eyes rolling left to
right along with the movement of the swing.
Power by the weight of a massive brass-cased weight with pulley
placed at the rear of the clock, and sliding safely between two
high steel bars. Blued steel hands with seconds-beating
center-sweeping. Two weeks autonomy, good precision.
Height 62cm

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Multi-dial brass, ormolu and black marble striking skeleton clock
by Jn.Jh Hanset à Bruxelles circa 1815-1820.
White enamel dial with concentric inner date ring framed
within a foliate cast and beaded bezel and signed.
Roman numerals with arabic five-minute markers,
triangular oeuil-de-perdrix hour and minute blued steel hands,
Fine center-sweep seconds hand, arrow calendar hand.
Subsidiary calendar rings below for days of week with their deities
and months with their zodiacal signs, each with arrow hands,
lunar dial above with phase and age of the moon, the movement with circular plates
joined by four back-pinned pillars, twin barrels with pinwheel escapement
on the back plate, strike via finely pierced
countwheel, fine crossings on the calendar rings, the heavy gridiron pendulum steel-suspended
from a pivoted knife-edge block, the whole raised on struts above two ormolu pillars
on a black marble rectangular plinth with four ormolu turned feet.
Height 50cm

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French Louis XVI ormolu and marble lyre mantel timepiece.
Enamel dial with Roman numerals signed .A.D.F.
(monogram of André Furet, who was clockmaker to the King of Spain
along with his associate François-Louis Godon.
Further calibration for half seconds and date,
pierced and engraved gilt hands, blued sweep seconds and date pointer,
movement with pinwheel escapement mounted on the tapered backplate,
gridiron pendulum with sunburst bob forming an oscillating bezel
knife-edge suspended from the finely cast and chiseled lyre-shaped
case surmounted by a sunburst mask with a garland below,
the whole mounted on an oval moulded ormolu mounted white marble base.
Two-weeks duration.
Height 49cm

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