The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 430

English, circa 1860.Highly unusual London "Gothic" skeleton clock with phases of the moon and chronometer escapement.

C. Brass scroll frame in a cathedral design mounted on an oval ebonised wooden base. D. Brass fretted chapter ring with Roman numerals and inner moon phase aperture Blued steel "fleur-de-lys" hands. M. Fusee with gut line, detent escapement with brass escape wheel, the locking and impulse pallets fitted of the pendulum fork, bob pendulum with spring suspension.Dim. 43 x 35 x 20 cm. (including ebonised wooden base).