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2697 A truly exceptional month duration mahogany Laterndluhr which we believe must have been made for a major exhibition. The early style mahogany case is unusually strung with ebony rather than with boxwood. It has a very flat pediment to the roof top and there are no side glasses in the bottom box, another early sign. The bottom door slides out rather than lifts out, again something often found on the early Laterndluhrs. The case still has its original patination and polish. The movement and dial of the clock are quite exceptional. The dial consists of a large enamelled chapter ring, together with a smaller enamelled seconds ring. The chapter ring contained within a superbly cast and fire gilded bezel and with a wide inner bezel, again superbly cast, engine turned and fire gilded. The hands of the clock are the most intricate design and are part polished and part blued steel. The centre of the clock is open to allow a full view of the most unusual movement. This movement is completely enclosed within a brass ring and, therefore, is only viewable from the front of the clock. All of the wheels are carried in large bridges or cocks which are themselves adorned with ornate steelwork which is alternately blued and silvered in a diagonal pattern. The crossings out on the wheels are most unusual and we have seen the same crossings on another clock by this maker. There is no friction work and each hand is individually set and the maintaining power, which is manual, takes the form of a sprung lever partly in the shape of a bird with a sprung beak that engages with one of the train wheels when it is pulled through. |
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Looking at the movement from the side of the clock the brass casing which covers it is again richly adorned with steelwork which is both polished and blued. The main barrel of the clock, which is very thin in order to give the duration, extends out from the backplate on a large cock which again is adorned in ornate steelwork.
The pendulum is a mock gridiron richly adorned with further blued and silvered steelwork and most unusually with a silvered bob rather than a brass bob. The centre of the bob is decorated with blued steel and polished steel star.
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The whole clock is extremely ornate with large amounts of blued and silvered steel adornments. The amount of time that this must have taken would be quite extraordinary which is why we believe this was made for a major exhibition.
In 30 years of dealing in Viennese clocks we have never seen another clock like it.
Length: 58" (148 cms.)
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