A brass pedestal timepiece 'The Orrery Clock' The St
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A brass pedestal timepiece 'The Orrery Clock' The St. James's House Company, London, late 20th century The horizontal eight-day movement with tandem barrel drive and inverted platform lever escapement applied to the underside of the top plate set beneath silvered annular Roman numeral hour and subsidiary minutes ring, the superstructure modelled with an armillary sphere enclosing an orrery simulating the relative orbits of six planets around the sun against a meridian scale calibrated in degrees to interior and with the months of the year to exterior, the orrery motionwork contained between circular plates incorporating a shaped sub plate and driven by an external pinion arbor engaging with one of the barrel greatwheels of the timepiece movement beneath, the whole raised on a concave lacquered brass pedestal foot with turned wooden plinth, 44.5cm (17.5ins) high; with original instruction booklet and a glass dome cover, 46cm (18ins) high overall.
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A brass pedestal timepiece 'The Orrery Clock' The St
Estimate £600 - £800
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