A beautiful and individual mahogany cased musical bracket clock. The case of arched top shape with a single cupola to the top has five beautiful wooden turned urn finials with bone balls at the top. The cupola has nicely pierced frets to the front and both sides.

The front of the clock is surmounted on each side with reeded pillars and the front door has satinwood stringing and edging. The clock has an ogee curved mould to the base, again with satinwood banding and stringing and four beautifully carved hard wood feet which have been ebonised.

The dial of the clock is a particularly notable feature. It has four enamel dials, the main dial being signed for the makers ‘Wightwick & Moss, London’ with an outer minute ring and fine Roman numerals. In the arch are three dials, one for chime and not chime, one for the date and one the tune selector for the seven tunes. These four enamel dials are contained within a beautifully painted mask. The painting is of floral garlands and musical instruments with gold edging to the dial cut outs. The hands on all three dials are of gilded brass.

The three train eight day gut fusee movement is of individual design and fine quality. It strikes the hours on a bell mounted above the backplate and plays the tunes on a nest of 12 bells with 12 hammers. It has an unusual regulating fan mounted above the backplate and is driven by a worm and wheel. The clock has its original verge escapement and there is a pendulum holdfast mounted in the middle of the backplate below the signature for the makers ‘Wightwick & Moss, London.’ The backplate has a rounded shaped cut out on the top left hand corner for the pin barrel and all of the backplate is nicely edged with engraving.

Height to top of finial: 27¾" (71 cms.)