Empire travel alarm clock

Vienna(?), Austria, ca. 1820

Gilt cast bronze with enchasing and guilloché; steel; enamel; glass. Anchor escapement with chimes on the quarter hour.

H: 24.5 cm

UMP 18616

Guilloché was often employed on metal clock cases and especially on Empire and later Biedermeier clock dials – a special machine was used to make parallel engraved waving lines.

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