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A GERMAN GILT-BRASS AND SILVER-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING ASTRONOMICAL MASTERPIECE CLOCK WITH ALARM
JOHANNES BRAUN, AUGSBURG. CIRCA 1714
A GERMAN GILT-BRASS AND SILVER-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING ASTRONOMICAL MASTERPIECE CLOCK WITH ALARM JOHANNES BRAUN, AUGSBURG. CIRCA 1714 CASE: the brass top plate with engraved line border and engraved straps to hour and quarter bells DIAL: the front brass dial plate with repoussé silver foliate and strapwork spandrels to gilt-brass reversible six month ring engraved with the saint's name for every day and the Dominical letter, pierced blued steel pointer, 3 in. diameter silver champlevé twice twelve principle chapter ring centred by three further discs calibrated 1-24 for Italian and Nuremberg hours, pierced and engraved gilt-brass hands, subsidiaries below for day of week with ruling deity and year ring showing the signs of the Zodiac centred by calibrated disc showing the position of the sun in the Zodiac, the rear brass dial plate with conforming spandrels to 5 in. diameter astrolabe dial with silver champlevé twice twelve chapter ring, subsidiaries to the upper corners for strike/silent and twelve or twenty-four hour striking, subsidiaries below for alarm and indicating the Dominical letter MOVEMENT: posted frame triple chain fusees movement with verge and pendulum escapement, striking the hours and quarters and sounding the alarm on the top-mounted bells, the two engraved side plates with pierced and engraved mainspring clicks and signed 'JOHANNES/BRAUN/AUGSBURG', silver champlevé discs indicating the hours on the right side and quarters on the left, Augsburg pineapple town mark stamped within engraved cartouche below the quarter indicator dial; with later beveled glazed display case and turntable stand 9½ in. (24 cm.) high; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide; 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) deep (3)