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No.124. 2721 A rare and unusual three month duration Dachluhr. The rosewood case of six light construction has a pedimented top with a double return moulding, both inside the pediment and between the pediment and the trunk. The roof top is edge inlaid with boxwood stringing. The clock then has a small opening hood door with a shaped and boxwood strung moulding separating it from the lift out full length trunk door. It then proceeds into a triangular base via a double stepped and inlaid moulding. The triangular base is an unusual configuration for a Dachluhr. The whole clock is particularly slender, which is remarkable considering it goes for three months, and has a complex compensated pendulum. The case maker that Anton Liszt used always produced exceptionally elegant cases with additional detailing over and above that which you might expect and this case is a fine example of that. The enamel dial has Roman numerals, a seconds dial below 12 o’clock and is signed for the maker ‘A. Liszt in Wien.’ It has nicely shaped blued steel hands and is surrounded by a finely cast and gilded engine turned bezel. |
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The three month duration movement is beautifully executed. It has very fine wheel work, a pin wheel deadbeat escapement, maintaining power and there are end stops throughout the train. Unusually, it is wound via the Huygen’s method of winding with one large weight and a small counter balance weight which is used to wind the clock. The pendulum is a particularly fine and unusual feature. It is a five rod zinc and steel compensated pendulum and, most unusually, the rods themselves are of square section and so they sit flat against their neighbour thus giving the pendulum the look of a striped solid piece of metal. It is knife edge suspended from a gimballed knife edge and is very heavy. It has a pointer fixed to the bottom which runs against a scale half way up the pendulum showing the amount of compensation. Length: 57" (145 cms.) |
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ANTON LISZT.
Anton Liszt was a sworn apprentice to the Imperial Royal Master and when qualified held a number of appointments both to the Royal Family and the State. He was once thought to be the brother of the composer, however we now believe he was first cousin, although it is very difficult to get definitive proof. He was a noted maker who, because of his connection to the composer and to the Court, had entrees into many of the best families in Vienna. This explains why many of his clocks are of the finest quality with embellishments not often found on clocks by other makers. In particular he is noted for producing clocks of two weeks duration when the norm was eight days. He is noted as working between 1828 and 1868, a long period and therefore the styles of his clocks vary enormously. His dials are sometimes spelt List, sometimes Lizt and sometimes Liszt, whether these were mistakes at the time or subsequently when the dials were re-written we cannot tell.
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