Beschreibung:

Daniel Delander London Now contained in a 19th century custom made mahogany case surmounted by three ball and spire finials over reeded columns and a tapering trunk of good colour and figuring, on a panelled base with double apron, the arched brass dial measuring 7 and 3/8ths of an inch wide by 10 and 13/16ths high set to the arch with a tapered aperture entitled 'Tabula Aequationis' with four concentric bands giving the date, month, and time difference (ranging from 16 minutes slower in late October to 15 minutes faster in early February), flanked by a pair of double-screwed mounts cast as young Jupiter astride an eagle, holding a thunderbolt in his hand, over an applied silvered nameplate flanked by apparently unique spandrels depicting well cast female heads within a lambrequin under an acanthus mount, the lower two interspersed with the engraved place name 'London', the silvered chapter ring with outer Arabic minutes set around a minute track with half-quarter marks set into the track, the Roman hours interspersed with lozenge half hour marks, with inner quarter hour track to a finely matted centre with chamfered date aperture, the movement plates measuring 6 and 1/4in by 4 and 15/16ths of an inch united by six knopped and finned pillars, all latched to the frontplate, the barrel of 13 turns to a great wheel and a further five wheels, all of six crossings, terminating in a delicate 'scape wheel polished steel A-framed pallets to a steel crutch and brass-rod pendulum with brass covered bob with engraved rating nut 1.96m (6ft 5in) high.