Stock No. | 287 |
Height | 18cm |
Case | Gilt brass case with recessed ‘funnel’ top and leaf-cast tie to folding square section handle, beveled glasses. With original gilt-tooled green leather travelling case and case key. |
Dial | Matted and engraved foliate mask to white enamel Roman chapter disc, subsidiary seconds at XII, sign DENT/LONDON, blued steel moon hands, |
Movement | Movement with single chain fuse, maintaining power, gilt platform with underslung Earnshaw-type chronometer escapement, Dent’s staple balance and blued steel helical spring. Sliding rear glass with release to the base, the back plate with repeat signature and numbered 702. |
Duration | 7 days. |
Comparative Literature | Derek Roberts, Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, pages 303-323. Allix and Bonnert, Carriage Clocks their History and Development, pages247-264. |
Escapement | Dent’s patent compensated staple balance with Earnhaw-type spring detent and blued steel helical balance spring. |
Dent London. No 702 Circa 1845.
A rare giant English fusee gilt carriage clock with Dents patent staple balance and Harrison-type maintaining power.
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