Gustav Becker Vienna Regulator, ca 1886. One of the most unusual Vienna regulator clocks we have ever offered at auction.
It has a signed 8 day movement with a Grand Sonnerie strike, carries a serial number No. 604750 that dates the movement at 1886. It strikes on two long iron rods. The movement and case did not start life together, it is a marriage. I bought it many years ago because of the religious and other designs on the dial, pendulum, and weights. The dial center features a cast cupid and the sun; the three weights have applied castings of angels wrapped around the weight shells; and the brass pendulum bob features a person standing on two horses with the sun in the background. There is a porcelain beat scale, door lock with escutcheon, and three good glasses. The large walnut case is 60" tall, finals are no doubt replacements. Similar clocks are pictured in Rich Ortenburger's book, "Vienna Regulators and Factory Clocks".
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