VINER, London c1835
Description:
A highly important English travelling clock, with month duration movement with perpetual calendar, duplex escapement and quarter striking mechanism. The quarters are sounded on two gongs, the hours struck on a single gong and the alarm sounded on a bell. The exquisite rosewood case has a slide off chamfer top to reveal a glazed aperture to view the duplex escapement. The silvered brass dial and three subsidiary dials are set within a gilt brass engine-turned mask. The main dial includes subsidiary seconds at twelve o’clock, up and down dials to indicate the state of winding for each train at four o’clock and eight o’clock, and a third pointer to set the alarm. The three subsidiary dials, in accordance with a perpetual calendar mechanism, indicate the day of the week, day of the month and month of the year. It is indicative of the fine condition of this clock that it remains complete with its original rosewood veneered travelling box. Charles Edward Viner was apprenticed in 1802 and Free of the Clockmakers Company in 1813 and established his business in Regent Street, London. Little is known how he learnt his expertise but he produced some of the finest English travelling clocks ever to be made. At his best, his work surpasses that of his peers Vulliamy and Dent.
Clockmaker: VINER, London
Circa: 1835
Stock Number: 3916
Height: 8.5 inches (22 cm.)