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FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the 1920s.
The Lenzkirch factories made the best of the German factory-produced clocks.
The high quality walnut case with moulded cornice over two doors with circular dial aperture enclosed by four quadrants and glazed side apertures, in fine original condition with good colour and patination.
The case is glazed to the front and sides with two opening doors to the front, gaining access to the pendulum and dial area independently.
The main door is latched with matching cast brass hooks, one top and one bottom, with the original lock and key. The upper dial / movement winding door has the original lock and key, with cast brass escutcheon to the case side. The glass to both front doors and the sides of the case is wonderfully old and wavy.
The interior of the case is finely polished walnut with the original silvered beat scale. The polished movement bracket with blued steel screws is mounted to the backboard of the case and the substantial pendulum hangs from this.
The heavy gauge silvered and engraved brass dial is 10' in diameter with Roman numerals and outer minute track with Arabic numerals to the quarters, polished brass sight ring. The original blued steel hands and sweep centre second hand.
The 8 day precision regulator movement with gilded adjustable deadbeat escapement and Harrison’s maintaining power, sapphire jewelled pallets and screwed jewelled chatons to the pivots on the pallet and escape wheel arbors, slide beat adjustment crutch.
The A-frame plates united by four turned pillars and secured with knurled thumb-screws, large knurled thumb screws secure the movement to the substantial brass mount bracket in the case.
The seconds beating compensated wooden rod pendulum has an adjustable crutch slot which exactly matches the crutch pin and therefore minimises energy loss between the mechanism and the pendulum rod.
The pendulum has a substantial 12 pound lead filled brass bob with a very large calibrated knurled rating nut and blued steel pointer.
The 3 pound cylindrical polished brass weight and ornate spoked pulley.
The movement is signed to the backplate Lenzkirch and numbered 1 Million and 999995 dating the clock to circa 1922.
The clock comes with the original winding key, which has a holding bracket to the upper part of the case.
The Lenzkirch factories made the best of the German factory-produced clocks. This piece, being a precision regulator, is an excellent example of the finest mechanism made by this prestigious maker.
Lenzkirch was founded by Eduard Hauser who was trained in France and Switzerland. The influence of his French training is clearly visible in the quality of his work. The mechanism in this clock is serial numbered 999995 and has the classical Lenzkirch “1 Million” trademark, acknowledging the production of over a million mechanisms.
The authoritative tome - “Lenzkircher Uhren. 1851-2001 (150 Jahre). Aus der Geschichte einer bemerkenswerten Uhrmacherzeit” provides a table of serial numbers (pg 38) suggesting this piece was made in 1922.
The clock is a superb timekeeper, as would be expected for a clock of this quality.
All of our clock movements are restored by our horologist who works exclusively for us. Our horologist is a Fellow of the British Horological Institute (FBHI), having 35 years of full time professional engagement in the repair & restoration of clocks, watches, music boxes & barometers. He was the recipient of the 1977 Worshipful Company of Clockmakers Bronze Medal.
FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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Lenzkirch Precision Regulator Wall Clock C.1922
