A very rare late 18th/early 19th century Austro-Hungarian grande-sonnerie striking and repeating engraved gilt brass travel clock with double wheel Duplex escapement and alarm, in the original travel case
H. Amon, Gedöllö
The square case engraved all-over with foliate scrolls surmounted by a ring handle and integral repeat button on rectangular block above the glazed sides, front and back doors, on engraved block feet. The 3.5 inch square silvered dial with Roman chapter ring and intricate floral engraving emanating from the centre, a circular aperture at XII revealing the plain monometallic balance mounted on a polished steel bridge, with matching blued steel hands and a plain steel alarm hand. The four spring barrel movement with double wheel Duplex escapement and skeletonised back plate, signed along the bottom edge; the hour strike and repeat using one train, one hammer, and one gong, while the ting-tang quarters are struck and repeated using a separate train and two hammers and two gongs, the alarm train rings vigorously on one gong with a double hammer. Contained within the original leather covered shaped travel case with twin hooks and eyes, the interior of which is set with two newspaper cuttings from 1954 - see footnote for further details.
Ticking, striking, repeating and alarm functioning. 9.5 x 6 x 17
Footnotes:
Two wall clocks from the early 19th century have been signed as 'H. Amon Pressburg' and it is possible this is the same person; Pressburg and Gedöllö were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time, though they now belong to two separate countries (Gedöllö becoming Gödöllö in Hungary and Pressburg becoming Bratislava in Slovakia). Pressburg was the capital of Hungary until the turn of the 19th century and Gedöllö was a thriving market town, so there would be a financial incentive to either move or set up a shop in each town. It has been suggested that the 'H' stands for 'Hieronimus' Amon, though no reference for this person can be found, so this can not be confirmed.

According to various clippings inside the clock's travel case, it was bought by S. B. Shepley as lot 304 on 12th November 1954 for £50 in the J.J. Greaves and Sons auction house in Sheffield. Also according to the included clippings, the clock was brought over from the Continent by a Yugoslav general, fleeing his home country, who was able to take his cloths and this clock, before he embarked on his new life.

The sequence of striking is the current number of hours followed by a ting-tang for the number of quarters: 1 for the first quarter, 2 for the half, 3 for a quarter to, and four at the hour. Because the full hours are struck 96 times a day, and the space available for the striking spring is quite restricted due to the overall size of the clock, the clock runs for a maximum of 40 hours.

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