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WIBRAL IN WIEN, NO. 21. A RARE WEIGHT DRIVEN EIGHT DAY TABLE CLOCK WITH PINWHEEL ESCAPEMENT. CIRCA 1805.

  The large enamel dial is signed ‘Wibral in Wien’ and has fine Roman numerals and minute track.  It has typical Wibral slender and simple blued steel hands and the dial is surrounded with a fine engine turned and gilded bezel.

  The eight day weight driven movement has fine wheel work with Harrison’s maintaining power and adjustable pinwheel escapement.  The backplate is engraved ‘Wibral in Wien, No. 21’ and the brass and steel pendulum is suspended from a silk cord.  It has a shallow brass cased weight and a pulley with four tapered crossings. 

  The movement rests on two alabaster columns with engine turned and gilded capitals and similar base decoration.  In turn the columns stand on ebonised blocks with gilt decoration to all sides.  Wibral is well known for his elegant and simple ebonised cases and this clock is no exception having a simple ebonised shaped base with three ball feet.  The clock is covered with a glass dome. 

  Height including glass dome:          22˝" (57 cm.)

  Price band: D


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  Mathias Wibral is known to have worked from about 1799 to 1823 and he is one of the most famous of the early Viennese makers.  He is particularly noted for making very elegant long duration clocks and there is an example of his work in the Clock Museum in Vienna.  A similar clock to our weight driven table clock is illustrated in ‘Viennese Timepieces’ by Kaltenbock on page 152 which is numbered 10 and has very ornate columns. 

  This is the first weight driven table clock by this respected maker that we have been able to purchase for many years.


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