A rare giant four dialled carriage clock.
The four dials, with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands each signed HRY. MARC set upon an engine turned dial plate; the eight day timepiece movement with lever escapement wound from the base of the gilt-brass case.
£3,250.00

Case height: 9 inches (23cms).

See ‘Carriage Clocks their history and development’ by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, page 445 where similar clock by Henry Marc is mentioned.

A very good eight-day duration Marine Chronometer with Barraud’s Patent winding.

The three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with ivory plaque to the middle tier, signed FRENCH and numbered 0 over 9912, with brass flush handles, the gimballed bowl with 4 ½ inch silvered dial, signed French, Royal Exchange, LONDON and numbered 9912, with Roman numerals and subsidiaries for state of wind and seconds. The eight-day duration chain fusée signed and numbered movement with Earnshaw’s spring detent escapement wound from the base of the bowl via Barraud’s Patent captive winding system.

A good French portico table regulator

The top quality mahogany case with gilt-brass tapered columns and capitols with engine-turned decoration. The 5 ¼ inch dial with finely engine-turned centre, signed on the cartouche GONNET ELEVE DE ROBIN, recessed seconds chapter at X11, inset with an enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals and calendar numbered in Arabic numerals 1 to 31, surrounded by an engine-turned and engraved gilt bezel. The two train spring barrel movement with outside countwheel sounding the hours and half hours on a bell with PIN-WHEEL escapement and elaborate grid-iron pendulum. The movement protected by a cylindrical dust cover.

Case height: 19 ½ inches (49.5cms).

Note: The main springs dated 1813.

The gilt-brass glazed case with circular white enamel dial having black Arabic numerals with red outside minutes at five minute intervals, set within a silvered mask. The eight-day movement sounding on a gong with repeat button; the time barrel wound from the backplate and the striking barrel wound from the base, with a silvered top-mounted platform lever escapement.

See ‘A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks’ by Joseph Fanelli, items 90,92,94 and 95, these examples have similar movements.

Case height: 2 ½ inches (6.4 cms).

A fine English mid-nineteenth century gilt-brass carriage clock having a particularly well engraved case surmounted by four finials and a handle centred by a recessed 16 point compass over four tapering columns to a plinth base and turned feet, the silvered dial with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands. The foliate engraved centre set within a finely engraved mask, the left-hand side panel containing a Fahrenheit thermometer, the right hand side panel a Reamur thermometer. The 8-day going barrel movement with lever escapement and integral hand-set key, signed on the inside of the rear door Storr & Mortimer, 156 New Bond Street, LONDON. With original cruciform winding key.

Case height: 6 inches (15cms)

The partnership of Storr & Mortimer was dissolved in 1838 and latterly became Hunt & Roskell the retailers of many fine clocks by Thomas Cole.
A carriage clock by Storr & Mortimer with similar thermometers and compass, is illustrated in ‘Carriage and other Travelling Clocks’ by Derek Roberts, page 346, Fig.34-1.