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 |
Contact info
Gude & Meis Antique Clocks
Address
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 60
1017 DH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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W: http://www.gudemeis.com/
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.