Important Watches, Wristwatches, Cloc...
Vicenza, Jan 18, 1992
LOT 176
Robert Molyneux, 30 Southampton Row., London, circa 1840. Important ancI rare mahogany, 8 day going carriage clock with a chronomeer escapement and a dead beat center seconds.
ITL 8,000 - 10,000
Sold: ITL 14,950
C. English type with four glass pannels, giIt bronze feet, large brass handel (slightly damaged). D. Silvered with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Brass, with cylindrical pillars, fusee and chain, maintaining power, Earnshaw spring detent plaetform escapement, hait second beating extra large bimetallic balance with compensation limiting device, free sprung helical balance spring, diamond endpiece. In good condition. Dim. 23 x 18 x 13 cm.
