Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection
Dent, London
A rare English gilt brass eight-day chronometer carriage timepiece, with Dent’s patented staple balance, No. 17966, Circa 1853
Live auction begins on:
December 8, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Movement: deeply planted platform with Earnshaw spring detent escapement, Dent’s patented free-sprung staple balance with a blued steeled helical hairspring, maintaining power, gong striking with repeat button to the side, two train fusees movements, strike/silent lever mounted on the backplate, No. 17966
Dial: 2 ⅝ inches, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds at 12 o'clock, gilt engine-turned surround
Case: gilt-brass molded rectangular case with folding handle, set with shuttered winding and hand setting apertures, heavy beveled-glazed top, side and back panels
Signed: backplate signed Dent, London, 17966
Accessories: accompanied by E. Greenberg invoice dated January 8th, 1969, referencing the purchase of four timepieces, including No.17966, listing the price as $2,520.00
Dimensions: 10.16 W x 17.18 H cm
For similar Dent Chronometer carriage clocks with the Dent patented staple balance, see Charles Allix, Carriage Clocks: Their History and Development, p. 259, pl. IX/28 and another see, Sotheby’s London, November 6, 2012, Lot 69, The George Daniels Horological Collection’ For an image of Dent’s Staple Balance see Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent and his successors p. 608 pl.146, see also lots 28 and 29.