Beschreibung:

A VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS FOUR-TRAIN GIANT EXHIBITION CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CHRONOMETER ESCAPEMENT, PERPETUAL CALENDAR AND EQUATION OF TIME m.f. dent, chronometer maker to the queen, no. 24128, circa 1862 The dial with silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman chapters and red outer minute markers, blued steel moon hands, the centre foliate engraved on a hatched ground with recessed seconds ring with blued steel hand, the signature engraved within a cartouche M.F. Dent, Chronometer Maker to the Queen, 33 & 34, Cockspur St. Charing Cross London. 24128 , the central subsidiary dial above with outer year calendar ring engraved with the months and solar equation time indicated to by means of a blued steel hand applied with a gilt sunburst, the cloud-engraved centre with penny moon phase aperture and bi-sextile ring, flanking subsidiary dials for month and day of week, the gilt mask finely engraved with foliate Arabesque strapwork on a hatched ground, the massive movement with thick brass rectangular plates secured by five pillars with blued steel screws to the back and front plates, triple chain fusees, the going with Harrison's maintaining power, the calendar train with its own individual power supply mounted on the left side of the front plate, the escapement with large brass platform employing Earnshaw's spring detent with a blued steel helical balance spring and cut bi-metallic balance with heat compensation weights, the quarter chime on eight bells via eight hammers with hour strike on a large blued steel gong, the backplate engraved M.F. Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London. 24128 , the massive gilt-brass case of Dent's typical design with a foliate-cast facetted handle to the top with large bevelled glass viewing aperture, the moulded base engraved on the front To H. Custance from the Duke of Hamilton Octb. 1879 , the foliate pierced rear door with Dent's typical hand-set and winding shutters with trip repeat lever, the door secured by means of a key-turned square in the base 15½in. (39.5cm.) high