FEBRUARY ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - 9:00 AM start
A French tower clock movement
Realised: $800 plus premium
Lot Details
compact flat-bed design with time and striking trains. Pin wheel escapement and count-wheel striking on hour and half hour. Elegant and very well-finished wheels, pinions and arbors. Cast iron frames and winding barrels, raised lettering on frame: 'Galle Freres Horologers Mecaniciens' and on brass striking count-wheel: 'Executee Galle Freres a Rennes 1863'. Original crank winder accommodating unequal winding square sizes. 6kg. pendulum with rectangular section wrought iron rod, cast iron bob having cast and painted flowers and foliage and raised letters R/A. Bed 83x36 cm. Height overall 330. 1863.
