Lot 258

German, 109 x 96 x 70 mm, circa 1730
An appealing hexagonal quarter hour repeating horizontal table clock with quarter hour self strike and alarm in its original leather box
Case: brass, gilt/silvered, the sides with screwed on windows, bun feet, rear bell. Dial: applied chapter ring, central alarm disc. Movm.: hexagonal brass movement, chain/fusee, 3 barrels, 3 hammers, the heads formed and engraved with fish, additional hammer for alarm, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.

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