Bracket clock

Clockmaker: Jakob Maier (um 1675 – 1750 Vienna)
Date: Vienna ca. 1730
Measurements: H: 55 cm
Signature: Jacob Maier in Wien

Description: duration 8 days, boulle case with fire-gilded applications, brass movement with verge escapement, thread and fusee, 4/4 hour striking and repeating, carillon of six bells. Indications: date, days of the week with rulers, month with signs of the zodiac, phase and age of the moon, gacility for switch off the striking and repeating mechanism.

Literatur: Frederick Kaltenböck: Die Wiener Uhr. Callwey 1988, P. 117, Abb. 222 & 223.