Clocks and Barometers

An impressive late Victorian ebonized and gilt brass mounted bracket clock with eight day triple fusee movement chiming quarters on four gongs and striking hours on a larger gong, the backplate signed 'Payne & Co 163 New Bond Street London 3010', the signed 8-inch silvered circular dial with black Roman hour numerals, the case with urn finials and applied flowers and floral festoons, the sides with pierced fret panels, on a stepped rectangular base and bracket feet, height 70cm, with pendulum.

A George V Gledhill-Brook Time Recorders Ltd oak cased clocking-in clock, the signed painted circular dial with black Roman hour numerals, the case with glazed door and hinged front compartment enclosing the mechanism, height 115cm.

A rare Japanese brass and iron 'yagura dokei' lantern alarm wall clock by Hanbei Tsunefusa Murakami of Kyoto, circa 1790-1830, with weight driven verge escapements controlled by separate foliot balances striking on a bell with a double ended hammer, one iron upright with seven character signature, the rectangular case with three hinged brass side plates, the circular chapter ring engraved with twenty-four characters centred with a revolving pierced hand, height 27.5cm, with two weights, one with stamped seal marks, together with a later wood wall bracket. Note: Japanese traditional timekeeping practices required the use of unequal time units: six daytime units from local sunrise to local sunset, and six night-time units from sunset to sunrise. As such, Japanese timekeepers varied with the seasons, with daylight hours longer in summer and shorter in winter, with the opposite at night. After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan abolished the use of the Temporal hour system and switched to the Western 24-hour system. This clock is rare in the fact that it is signed, as mentioned in 'The Evolution of Clockwork with a Special Section on the Clocks of Japan' by J. Drummond Robertson: |It is an unfortunate circumstance that Japanese clocks, with the rarest exceptions, should be unsigned and undated|.

A George V electric master clock, the 7-inch silvered circular dial with black Roman hour numerals and inscribed 'Gillett & Johnston Croydon', with pendulum, the oak case with glazed door, height 135.5cm.

A George V ebonized electric master clock case with 7-inch painted circular dial and part of mechanism, the case with moulded pediment and glazed door, height 139.5cm.

A late 19th century oak cased Vienna wall timepiece with cupboard below, with single train movement, the two piece enamel circular dial with black Roman hour numerals and inscribed 'Carl Moranetz Wien', the case with swan neck pediment above a carved egg and dart border, the glazed door with fluted Ionic columns, the lower cupboard with hinged panelled door and further Ionic columns, total height 218cm, with pendulum and brass weight.

A 20th century brass anniversary mantel timepiece, the cream dial with Arabic hour numerals, on a circular base with glass dome, total height 42cm, together with two other anniversary timepieces with glass domes and an oak mantel clock.

A collection of fifteen 20th century anniversary mantel timepieces, including Bentima, Kundo and Schatz & Kern, heights ranging from 29.5cm to 14cm, together with a skeleton mantel clock, all with glass domes.

A collection of mantel clock movements and dials, including various late 19th century French eight day bell strike movements.