31610C.R
CHARLES FRODSHAM LONDON.
An extremely fine English eight day regulator by this famous maker. The case is constructed with the very finest mahogany veneers to the front. It has a pedimented hood with strong mouldings to the rooftop and mock apertures to the side of the hood. It has canted corners both to the hood and to the main part of the trunk, the front door of which is fully glazed. It has a panelled base and stands on a single plinth with wooden block feet. The backboard of the clock is also beautifully veneered.
The regulator style dial has an exceptionally ornate signature, ‘Chas. Frodsham Chronometer Maker to the Royal Navy, London’. It has a seconds dial below XII with observatory markings and a similar size hour dial above VI. The whole dial is silvered brass.
The eight day movement has a wooden dust cover which fits over the entire movement and abuts the back of the dial. The six pillar movement has nicely shaped pillars and unusually shaped plates with a steep one sided cut in at the top of the movement. The gut is carried to the side of the movement over a spindle mounted wheel which conforms to the wheel work of the movement and is supported by two pillars mounted on the seatboard. The pillars are the same shape as the movement pillars. It has deadbeat escapement, maintaining power and fine wheels with six crossings and high count pinions. The glass jar mercury compensated pendulum is suspended from a large back cock which spans both plates and runs against a silvered beat plaque fixed to the back board of the case.
Height: 6' 2" (187 cm.)
