Beschreibung:

A Belgian highly complicated quarter striking automaton skeleton clock with remontoire, and calendar Attributed to Hubert Sarton Liege. Circa 1773 The vari-coloured marble plinth in-set with an ormolu frieze cast with putti, the movement with very thick brass plates, pin-wheel escapement planted on the backplate with steel and brass-rod gridiron pendulum with knife-edge suspension with screw-nut rate adjustment, the pendulum hung to one side from a sturdy brass arm and connected to the movement by a Z-form brass crutch rod, pulley-and-weight system for the one-minute remontoire hanging from a sturdy brass arm on the opposite side of the movement, the pulleys with four fine crossings and brass-cased lead small weights, large brass adjustable fly for both remontoire and strike, fine quality wheel train with skeletonised thick brass plates, very large spring barrels with blued steel clicks, the movement secured to the plinth by means of heavy brass brackets with knurled nuts, both white enamel dials of annular form, the main automaton dial swinging from one side to the other in intervals of 60° on command from the remontoire released at minute intervals, the dial with Arabic chapters and inner concentric calendar ring with blued steel hands, with beaded bezels, the fixed calendar dial above with sweep centre seconds, day of week and month (in red), with blued steel hands, the strike on two bells above the movement via countwheel on the backplate; together with the original massive winding key Key 21.5 cm. high