AUSTRIAN ORMOLU GRANDE SONNERIE TRAVEL CLOCK, HAPPACHER

By Gude & Meis Antique Clocks
€14.500
 

Specifications

All Furniture: Clocks
Place of Origin: Austria
Depth: 6,5 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height: 14,5 cm
Condition: Very good
Period: Early 19th Century
Date of manufacture: Ca. 1820
Creator: Happacher
 
 
 

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The story

30-hour movement with grande sonnerie striking and alarm, fine ormolu case and leather travel case.

6-cm ormolu dial with Roman numerals and engine turned centre, blued steel hands and silvered alarm pointer, 30-hour spring driven movement with cylinder escapement and balance, grande sonnerie rack striking on two gongs with repeat on demand, alarm on a single gong, signed on the stopwork Hapacher in Wien, finely engine turned ormolu ball shaped case surmounted by a carrying handle, raised on claw feet, together with the original green leather travelling case.

Signature: Happacher in Wien

See; Peter Fritsch, Wiener Reiseuhren, pp. 270 - 271 for three comparable travel clocks, one of the same maker.