A FINE VICTORIAN GILT BRASS GIANT CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE WITH ORIGINAL TRAVELLING CASE EDWARD WHITE, LONDON, NO. 691, CIRCA 1875 The four columnar pillar eight-day single chain fusee back-wound movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw-type spring detent chronometer escapement regulated by helical sprung split bimetallic balance incorporating screw timing weights to rim, set on a spotted horizontal platform within the plates towards the upper margin incorporating diamond endstone to the balance cock, the backplate with central aperture revealing the balance to upper margin over winding and hand-setting squares and engraved signature E. White, 20 Cockspur St., London, 691 to centre, the 3 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with subsidiary running seconds hand at twelve o'clock and signed E. WHITE, 20 COCKSPUR S'T., LONDON to centre, with blued spade steel hands and set within a fine engine-turned gilt rectangular gilt mask framed by a canted bezel surround, the heavy thickly bevel-glazed frosted gilt brass case with hinged reeded baton-centred scroll-ended handle over rectangular top glass, inverted ogee cornice, and rounded uprights to angles, the rear with lift-out panel secured via a screw released via the winding key from beneath and with shuttered holes annotated with direction of wind arrow to the left and labelled SET HANDS to the right, on cavetto moulded skirt base with rounded angles, with original tooled black/green Morocco leather covered travelling case opening to reveal a deep green velvet lined interior incorporating dial aperture slide to the front. The timepiece 19.5cm (7.75ins) high with handle down, 13.3cm (5.25ins) wide, 10.8cm (4.25ins) deep; the travelling case 23.5cm (9.25ins) high, 17cm (6.75ins) wide, 15cm (6ins) deep. Provenance: The present lot was sold at Christies King Street, London, sale of IMPORTANT CLOCKS AND MARINE CHRONOMETERS 6th December 2006 (lot 39) for £12,000 hammer where it was noted that the timepiece had been acquired from Garrards, London, in 1996. Subsequently purchased by the vendor from Anthony Woodburn. Edward White was a chronometer and carriage clock maker who operated from premises at 20 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall London from 1861 to 1890. He was a former workman for Dent and exhibited at the 1862 Exhibition taking a four-page advertisement in the catalogue. An essentially identical timepiece to the present lot (number 837) is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS pages 320-21 (Figures 21-23 a., b., c.). A chronometer carriage clock by Dent, housed in a near-identical case, is also illustrated on page 319 (Figure 21-22 a). Roberts notes that the similarities between the examples signed by both E. White and Dent are such that 'it would seem more than a little likely that they were made by the same hand'.
A FINE VICTORIAN GILT BRASS GIANT CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE WITH ORIGINAL TRAVELLING CASE EDWARD WHITE, LONDON, NO. 691, CIRCA 1875 The four columnar pillar eight-day single chain fusee back-wound movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw-type spring detent chronometer escapement regulated by helical sprung split bimetallic balance incorporating screw timing weights to rim, set on a spotted horizontal platform within the plates towards the upper margin incorporating diamond endstone to the balance cock, the backplate with central aperture revealing the balance to upper margin over winding and hand-setting squares and engraved signature E. White, 20 Cockspur St., London, 691 to centre, the 3 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with subsidiary running seconds hand at twelve o'clock and signed E. WHITE, 20 COCKSPUR S'T., LONDON to centre, with blued spade steel hands and set within a fine engine-turned gilt rectangular gilt mask framed by a canted bezel surround, the heavy thickly bevel-glazed frosted gilt brass case with hinged reeded baton-centred scroll-ended handle over rectangular top glass, inverted ogee cornice, and rounded uprights to angles, the rear with lift-out panel secured via a screw released via the winding key from beneath and with shuttered holes annotated with direction of wind arrow to the left and labelled SET HANDS to the right, on cavetto moulded skirt base with rounded angles, with original tooled black/green Morocco leather covered travelling case opening to reveal a deep green velvet lined interior incorporating dial aperture slide to the front. The timepiece 19.5cm (7.75ins) high with handle down, 13.3cm (5.25ins) wide, 10.8cm (4.25ins) deep; the travelling case 23.5cm (9.25ins) high, 17cm (6.75ins) wide, 15cm (6ins) deep. Provenance: The present lot was sold at Christies King Street, London, sale of IMPORTANT CLOCKS AND MARINE CHRONOMETERS 6th December 2006 (lot 39) for £12,000 hammer where it was noted that the timepiece had been acquired from Garrards, London, in 1996. Subsequently purchased by the vendor from Anthony Woodburn. Edward White was a chronometer and carriage clock maker who operated from premises at 20 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall London from 1861 to 1890. He was a former workman for Dent and exhibited at the 1862 Exhibition taking a four-page advertisement in the catalogue. An essentially identical timepiece to the present lot (number 837) is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS pages 320-21 (Figures 21-23 a., b., c.). A chronometer carriage clock by Dent, housed in a near-identical case, is also illustrated on page 319 (Figure 21-22 a). Roberts notes that the similarities between the examples signed by both E. White and Dent are such that 'it would seem more than a little likely that they were made by the same hand'.
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