Console wall clock

The clock was purchased for the Wilanów collection in 1964. It shows minutes and hours marked on the dial face in Arabic numerals (5-60) and Roman numerals (I-XII) with two open-work hands: an hour hand and a minute hand. On the dial face there are two winding holes; for running and for striking of the hours and quarters of an hour.

The mechanism has a spring drive, the spindle catch horizontally mounted on a half-bridge bolted to the backplate of the mechanism. The lightweight, long pendulum hangs on a threaded pendant. The striking of the hours and quarters runs from a single spring and a common step cam. The clock is equipped with a quadrant repeater, stretched by pulling a string at the moment of starting the repeater, as well as the pinwheel regulator. A quadrant strike switch at the time of striking the hours is also installed.

The wooden clock case, set on a hanging console, carved and gilded all over, is a compilation of architectural and figural motifs. Its shaft, set on a wider plinth, is topped with a broken cornice, on which an eagle sits with outstretched wings, holding an oval medallion in its talons. The sides are flanked by two figures of putti pointing to a clock face set against the shaft decorated with a wreath of laurel and a garland of leaves and flowers supported on either side by goat heads.

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