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Saturday, October 29th at 1pm Jewelry & Watches, Lots 1 - 207 - Preview Begins at 9am - Saturday, October 29th at 4pm Clocks, Lots 208- 396 - Preview Begins at 12pm
Sunday, October 30th at 10am Clocks, Lots 397 - 688 - Preview Begins at 8am

• 586 Ansonia Clock Co., New York, "Huntress Swing" 8 day figural mystery clock, c1883.
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• 587 Dent, London, England, "Congreve Rolling Ball Clock", 8 day, spring driven, fusee movement with maintaining power is regulated by a rolling steel ball traversing an inclined plane every 15 seconds, tripping a lever, tilting the plane in the opposite direction, while registering 15 second intervals on the right dial, minutes on the center and hours on the left all on a marble base in a Plexiglass case, dated 1973
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• 588 French Empire swinging doll 8 day time and strike ebonized portico clock, c1870
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• 589 French mystery clock, "La Balancelle" double dialed shop window regulator 8 day, time only, spring driven movement in nickel plated and brass grid iron pendulum form case with two white enamel dials, one with sweep seconds and the other without, c1850
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• 590 French mystery clock, "La Balancelle" double dialed shop window regulator 8 day, time only, spring driven movement in nickel plated grid iron pendulum form case with two white enamel dials, one with sweep seconds and the other without, c1850
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• 591 Austrian, Christian Federl, Miniature Laterndluhr, weight for time, and springs for quarter and hour strike, in a well made mahogany veneered case with satinwood edge banding, 1 to 2 day duration, c1820
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• 592 A rare and early Japanese bell clock (Tsurigane Dokei) within a finely cast bronze bell with Japanese characters and double headed dragon form handle; having a posted, iron, double spring driven, striking movement with crown wheel escapement and time regulated by a large circular balance with moveable double weights, originally for adjusting the temporal hours every day before each sunrise and sunset with the change of each Japanese season. The brass dial with single, fixed hand has traditional Japanese numerals 9 through 4 with applied silvered butterflies to the original surrounding dial plate. The rotating dial with adjustable "hour" and "half hour" markers is a common 19th Century upgrade to many very early Japanese clocks that have a single foliot or balance, since changing the weights and hence the rate before sunrise and sunset each day was extremely unhandy. This is verified by J. Drummond Robertson in The Evolution of Clockwork , page 226 saying "we find some of the old clocks "converted" to the new style of motion work. The old fixed hour circle with its revolving centre was removed and the new revolving circle and its fixed hand with adjustable "hour" plates was substituted." This is the case in each of the only other examples of Japanese Bell Clocks of which we are aware: see Japanese Clocks by N.H.N. Mody, plate 113, fig.1 for an almost identical example to the clock being offered. This dial conversion is also apparent in the Bronze Bell Clock sold at Sotheby's Masterpieces From the Time Museum Sale, Part Two, 19 June 2002, lot 126. An inscription on the bell reads Fukushima ya Katsutaro 1689, who may be the maker of either the clock or the bell. Most Japanese spring driven clocks have a fusee to the time train and a going barrel to the strike train. This movement is anomalous, in that is has two going barrels. It may be that the Japanese had not developed a method of turning a fusee at this early date, C.1690
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• 593 The Boehm "Mayflower Clock", Llandow, Wales, modern annular commemorative 8 day timepiece by K.J.Bradford, Chelmsford, England, Serial No.251, late 20th century
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• 594 French bronze and ormolu figural mantel clock, 8 day, silk thread suspension, time and bell strike, spring driven movement with unusual automatic beat adjustment designed to keep the pallets centered by gravity on the pallet arbor in well patinated case with Roman figure holding tablet with the title of Virgil's works, accented with ormolu appliqués and spandrels with a musical motif and a Roman numeral white enamel chapter ring, c1810
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• 595 French bronze figural clock, "Lady Liberty", 8 day, time and strike, spring driven movement with platform escapement all on a marble base (not pictured), c1900
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• 596 French, Guilmet, rare automaton "LOOM" from the industrial series, a conventional time and bell strike movement, with the exposed gears and loom driven by a weight falling down the right side of the base, the "motor" for the loom, a large heavily made clockwork movement with dual vane fan governor. Typical of Guilmet's designs, the loom includes a thermometer to the left and an aneroid barometer to the right , c1880
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• 597 French, Large Cast & gilt bronze Balloon Clock, the case depicting a hot air balloon with a woven basket below, and is anchored to the ground within a fenced platform. Has a gold dore finish. Dial has applied Arabic numerals and fancy black hands; typical round French brass time and strike movement, signed Japy Freres, c1890
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• 598 French, Love & Time, Bronze and Marble mantle clock, depicting Father time or Chronos with his scythe, sitting in a boat, steered by the cherubic Amor, and with a quality movement by Vincenti (1855 award medallion), the bronze boat and "water" mounted to a well figured piece of yellow / black striped marble, the whole supported on 4 large paw feet, c1875.
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• 599 French, very large swing clock, Patinated spelter tree limbs entwined at the top to form the support for the swinging clock. A romantic couple are seated in a swing, appearing to suspend by rope, The original marble base with a brass title plaque: "Idylle Printaniere, par Geo Maxim", the couple swinging from side to side without apparent impulse, c1890
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• 600 Lepine, Paris, France figural clock, 8 day, time and bell strike, spring driven movement in gilt ormolu case with seated figure surmounting 10" white enamel dial, a peacock and two swans with turned feet, c1880
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• 601 R. Holt & Cie, Paris, France miniature skeleton clock for the English market, 8 day, time and alarm, spring driven movement introduced at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, signed on the dial and movement. Includes original glass dome on ebonized base, c1860
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• 602 Skeleton clock, Chinese, in a cathedral frame, modern copy of English double fusee original, less dome, c.2002
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