FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the 1800s.
Date: 1845
Height: 16" Width: 11" Depth: 7.5"
Price: £5,900
The high quality “Gentleman’s Library” style case veneered in beautifully figured rosewood, constructed on a solid oak carcass. The sides with silk lined cast brass sound frets and rear with glazed viewing window.
The square silvered brass dial with fine engraving to the corners, signed Fletcher late Dwerrihouse, 27 Davies Street to the dial centre, with strike silent lever above the XII
The high quality chain driven twin fuse movement of eight day duration, united by five knopped pillars, with the original anchor escapement and striking the hours on a single curled blued steel gong, with strike silent facility and pull repeat. Signed to the back plate Fletcher late Dwerrihouse 27 Davies Street, Berkeley Square. Heavy brass bob pendulum, with London style rating adjustment and knurled thumbscrew pendulum restraint
Beautiful blued steel hands.
John Fletcher working 1832 – 1882, ex Lancashire pinion maker, working in London 1832 – 1835 as a chronometer escapement maker, (Bought out Dwerrihouse) 27 Davies Street Berkeley Square 1845 -1849; (Bought out Eiffe) 48 Lombard Street 1849 – 1856. Learnt springing from Wm Cribb and settled down as a chronometer maker springing and adjusting his own work (Bought out Cummins) 148 Leadenhall Street 1858 – 1867, retired 1880 and died aged 80 in 1882.
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FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the 1800s.
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A Fine Quality Rosewood Bracket Clock by Fletcher Late Dwerrihouse, Berkeley Square, London, C.1845
