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Timekeeper with 2 ComplicationsChristianus Caroll, Köningsberg, circa 1660.Fine and very rare gilt and silvered bronze three-train, hour- and quarter-striking, large horizontal table clock in original leather fitted box.

CHF 35,000 - 40,000

USD 22,000 - 25,000

Sold: CHF 46,000

C. Hexagonal, glazed on all sides with silvered oval frames, with silvered caryatides on the corners, molded borders, three silvered feet with winged womens' heads, hinged base with two apertures for bells engraved with semicircles and wild strawberries. D. Gilt brass, chased and engraved with tulips and other flowers, applied silver chapter ring with champlevé Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute divisions, pin-hole between 2 and 3 o'clock for setting the striking. Very elaborate silver handsM. Hexagonal, gilt brass, baluster pillars, three-train, fusee and chain, verge escapement with plain three-arm steel balance and later short 1 1/2-turn balance spring, irregular pierced and engraved cock with large single foot, ratchet wheel and click set-up with large gilt brass click bridge decorated en suite, striking with fixed florally engraved barrels, pierced and engraved locking gate, striking on two hammers on two bells, engraved count wheel set on the back plate, silver quarter-strikng plate also set on the back plate.Signed on the movement.Diam. 18 cm diagonally.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3 - 15*
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

The clock is in unusually good condition, probably due to its having been preserved in its carrying box, a very rare occurrence. Köningsberg was in Eastern Prussia, modern day Russia, and is today called Kaliningrad. Very fine clocks were made there, among others some of the earliest horizontal table clocks with second hand, circa 1680.