Beschreibung:

An English engraved gilt brass ‘scissors’ twin-pendulum skeleton timepiece with calendar John Wilding, Sussex, late 20th century The substantial twin pillar single fusee movement with train vertically planted between strip plates with spire terminals incorporating escape wheel with twin-arbor pallets regulated by pair of dumb-bell pendula with decorative ‘scissor handle’ terminals pivoted via decorative pierced cock in front of the dia, the front with visible motionwork and subsidiary day-of-the-week and date-of-the-month enamel dials within circular white enamel Roman numeral chapter ring signed John Wilding, England to lower edge and painted steel scissor hands, on twin pierced supports modelled as scissor handles decorated with foliate scroll engraving to front applied to rectangular moulded mahogany stand stepped to take a gilt brass framed glass cover and incorporating key drawer the burr wood panel veneered front over squab feet, (some relatively minor damage), the timepiece 52.5 cm (20.75ins) high; 63cm (25ins) high overall. The design of the current lot was inspired by an early 19th century French original now housed in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan (see Royer-Collard, F.B. SKELETON CLOCKS page 88). The twin arbor escapement regulated by double pendulum is based upon a design by Jean Baptiste Dutertre developed in around 1735 for use in a marine timekeeper. Condition report disclaimer