Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London No. 1312.

Circa 1860

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57 inches high

An extremely fine and rare month-going spring-driven walnut wall regulator. CASE The elegant walnut-veneered case is of slender arched form with a delicate brass moulding framing the glass door which has two locks in the left side of the case and three five knuckle hinges; the inside of the door has a walnut cock-beading and the original baize dust liner. The case terminates with a convex moulding at the base. DIAL The silvered brass dial is framed by a chevron-engraved gilt-brass moulding and the dial is signed Chas' Frodsham, 84 Strand, London Maker to the Queen. No. 1312 and is flanked by the two garter ‘medals'; on the right for the gold medal at the 1855 Paris Exposition and the Royal Warrant to the left side. The Chapter ring has engraved Roman numerals with cruciform blued steel hands, subsidiary seconds ring below XII and state of wind ring beneath calibrated to 56 days – the winding square is engraved with an arrow for the wind direction and engraved Wind 1st of the month. MOVEMENT The very high quality movement has a high count wheel train with large chain fusee and spring barrel – the fusee pivots have a screwed endcap; the wheel train of the finest quality, each wheel with six crossings, deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets and the escape wheel and fourth wheels are both pivoted in jewelled screwed chatons in the movement plates; the exceptional steel-rod pendulum is suspended from the backboard and has Frodsham's mercury-filled steel-jar with fine adjustment calibration against a blued steel pointer, beating against an engraved calibrated silvered beat scale in the base which is also signed Chas. Frodsham, 84. Strand, London Provenance Sir Arthur Mackworth, 6th Baronet 1842-1914 of Glen Usk House, Wales Sold with most of the contents of the house in 1940, bought by a clock collector. Inherited by the descending granddaughter