A long established family business since 1957 specializing in Antique clocks, vintage watches, music boxes, and barometers. Buy with confidence with 12 months guarantee, signed for delivery or personal delivery when possible. Worldwide tracked and insured delivery. Please contact us for more details on a specific item, we can Skype/Face-time/Whatsapp and show you the item in more detail by video link. Members of The British Watch and Clockmakers Guild.
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Gibson of Royal Exchange, London Bracket / Table Clock
Georgian twin fusee bracket/table clock. An elegant, ebonised lancet top case. The case front has inlaid brass stringing in a geometric design above and below the bezel. There is a lower elaborated moulding that is above the short plinth also inlaid with brass stringing. Brass sound fretted side panels with silk backing. Brass pillars with integral capitals that are seated within recessed front edges to the case. A cast brass bezel with convex glass. A pull repeat to the side. A glass back door showing the mechanism. A convex dial with blued steel hands signed 'Gibson London'.
A strike/silent lever to the rear of the mechanism. A quality double fusee mechanism striking the hours on a bell of 8-day duration with shaped top plates and border engraving. A pendulum transportation lock.
Andrew Gibson of London is recorded in Baillies' 'Watchmakers and Clockmakers of The World' book as working 1801-1808.
From Kembery Antique Clocks Ltd you can expect a genuine antique clock with a written 12 months guarantee which has been serviced to a high standard. On larger items we can personally deliver, please contact us for a quote & Worldwide shipping.
We can send more photos on Whatsapp. We are members of the British Watchmakers and Clockmakers Guild.
measurements
Height:
41 cm
Width:
24 cm
Depth:
16 cm
measurements
declaration
Kembery Antique Clocks Ltd has clarified that the Gibson of Royal Exchange, London Bracket / Table Clock (LA500199) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1805