LOT 54 A rare 19th century German weight driven quarter chiming 'Surrerwerk' wall clock Unsigned
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UnsignedThe 10.75 inch painted wooden Roman dial with decorated arch and floral corner pieces, the plated wooden movement with some steel and some turned wooden arbors, the anchor pallets made of formed steel strip, the strike train using two graduated cams to move the position of the hour and quarter hammers relative to the double-sided pin wheel which is set with 12 graduated pins on one side and 4 on the other, each hammer striking on one of the two graduated bells mounted above,the strike speed regulated by a large serpentine shaped brass fly mounted on a worm gear and passing through a cut-out in the front plate, a third hammer is mounted on the frontplate and is also activated on the quarters, with trip repeat wire to the right hand side, the rear of the backboard with indistinct signature. With wire rod pendulum terminating in a turned wooden bob, later side doors and two later (?) brass cylindrical weights. 37cms (14.5ins) high.
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