Antique Wall Clocks


BAPT. RONCHETI Date: c1785	A GOOD FRENCH GILT-BRASS PORCELAIN MOUNTED CARRIAGE CLOCK Date: c1880	A GOOD FRENCH CHAMPLEVE ENAMELLED CARRIAGE CLOCK Date: c1895
A very fine mahogany and inlaid wheel barometer, the 8 inch silvered signed Bapt. Roncheti & Lomas.	The gilt-brass case with ripple mouldings to the top and base mounted with side panels, signed A. COLLOT, depicting attractive ladies in Middle Eastern dress with conforming dial painted with a town scene showing minarets, with Arabic numerals and blued steel hands. The two train going barrel movement with silvered platform lever escapement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat. Case height: 6 inches (15 cms). £5,500	The enamelled anglaise riches gilt-brass case with side panels and dial mask en-suite, the dial set with a white enamel chapter with Roman numerals and gilt hands. The two train going barrel movement with silvered platform lever escapement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat. The backplate signed with an encircled letter ‘B’. Case height: 6 ½ inches (16.5cms). £5,500

JOSEPH PENLINGTON LIVERPOOL Date: c1840	JAMES FERGUSON COLE AND THOMAS COLE	JAMES FERGUSON COLE AND THOMAS COLE Rear View
A good mahogany wall Regulator. The finely veneered mahogany case glazed to the front, well carved with leaf and berry decoration, the trunk with canted corners, side door and carved receding base depicting tied laurel berries. The silvered dial engraved with Roman numerals and signed PENLINGTON, LIVERPOOL with blued steel hands. The weight-driven movement with tapered plates, maintaining power and high count pinions with dead-beat escapement and mercury compensated pendulum with silvered beat scale. Case length: 53 inches (135cms). Joseph Penlington is recorded at Church Street, Liverpool 1818-34 and St Georges Crescent North 1848-1903 and is known for his top quality marine chronometers.	A silver-gilt petite-sonnerie and perpetual calendar Repeating carriage clock with alarm London Hallmark 1824. The 3 ½ inch silver dial with ‘Breguet’ style hands, engine-turned centre, subsidiary dials for seconds, month and day of the week, a lunar aperture indicating the phase and age of the moon, the whole set on an engine-turned gilt surround applied with a gold plaque engraved No X and flanked by dials for day of the month dated Anno 1831 with retrograde hand and alarm, the frost-gilt movement signed J.F & T. Cole London, the striking and going trains with a tandem drive from a single spring barrel, under-slung pointed pallet lever escapement, steel escape wheel and compensation balance with gold timing screws, the strike sounding on two gongs, pull wind alarm on a bell, the arched case with chain handle, a strike/silent slide to the right side, a knurled knob for setting the alarm to the left, hallmark on the base, case maker’s mark J A for Joseph Angell; with a winder and the original leather covered case with gilt-brass fittings. Case height: 6 ½ inches (16.5 cms). It is thought that this clock and a similar example in the British Museum are the only two clocks of this type to carry both names.

J. R. LOSADA 281 Regent Street LONDON No. 1807 Date: c1840	VINER & Co Regent Street LONDON Date: c1830	TIFFANY & CO NEW YORK No: 3823 Date c1880
A very good finely engraved English carriage clock of small size. The gilt-brass case, finely engraved to the highest standard with a leaf-scroll design, with fluted columns; ball finials standing upon bun feet with a folding scroll handle; the side panels engraved with an Indian palace and the rear door with a floral design. The engraved slivered dial set within an engraved border, with Roman numerals and delicate blued steel fleur de lys hands The small two train fuse movement, with jewelled contrite arbour, sounding the hours on a gong, signed on the backplate J.R. Losada 281 Regent Street London and numbered 1807, having a gilt platform lever escapement. Case height: 6 inches ( 15.5 cms). A clock of similar style and quality is illustrated in A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks by Joseph Fanelli, pages 176 & 177. José R. Losada who in his younger days was attached to the Court at Madrid, came to London and in 1835 set up as a watch and clock maker close to Euston Road; after- wards at Regent Street (281?) near the Polytechnic; then at 105 Regent Street	A very fine early English carriage clock. The gilt-brass case with opening front door; rear door with sound fret; solid sides and folding flush carrying handle. The white enamel dial, signed VINER & Co, LONDON, with Roman numerals having two subsidiary dials above for alarm set and silent/strike selection and blued steel moon hands. The top quality two train chain fuseé movement, signed Viner & Co Regent Street LONDON, with pull alarm and repeat sounding the hours and half hours on a bell surmounted by a platform lever escapement with fine micrometer rating adjustment on the backplate. Case height: 6 inches (15.2 cms). Viner is recorded at 235 Regent Street from 1829-42.	A fine French porcelain mounted grande-sonnerie carriage clock. The two coloured gilt and silvered case mounted with well executed porcelain side panels and dial en-suite all signed L. Simmonet; the dial having Roman numerals, alarm chapter and blued steel hands is signed Tiffany & Co. New York. The going-barrel grande-sonnerie movement sounding the hours and quarters on two gongs, signed on the backplate Tiffany & Co. New York, with silvered platform lever escapement, with three position selection lever in the base. Case height to top of finials: 6 ½ inches (16.5cms). A similar example numbered 3910 is illustrated in ‘A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks’ by Joseph Fanelli on pages 140/141.

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