Gustav Becker, Germany, a walnut 'Vienna' regulator wall clock: the eight-day duration, weight driven movement with maintaining power, adjustable pallets to the dead-beat escapement and a wood-rod pendulum with brass bob, striking on a gong, the backplate stamped with the trademark of Gustav Becker, a mark showing the award for the Medaille d'Or won at the 1852 Silesia Trade Exposition and serial number 19639, giving a date of manufacture of circa 1866, the walnut veneered case having turned finials to the top and bottom, with an architectural pediment top, glazed front and sides and Corinthian capitals to the fluted trunk pillars, with a burr walnut panel to the backboard and various further panels to the case front, the two-piece white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and decorative blued steel hands, height: 130 cm.* Biography Gustav Becker was born in 1819 and trained in both Germany and Austria before operating on his own account in 1850 in Freiburg, Silesia, Germany. It was the award of the Gold medal mentioned that set him on his way to being one of the most prolific and better makers of Vienna-style regulator wall clocks. Becker died in 1885 but the company continued making clocks until 1935 when it was taken over by the fast-expanding Junghans clockmaking concern.