CARRIAGE CLOCK with alarm
Clockmaker: Martin Boeck
Date: ca. 1830
Measurements: H 22,5 cm
Signature: MARTIN BOECK IN WIEN
Description: duration: 36 hours, gilt brass case, engine turned and gilt dial with enamel chapter ring, blued steel hands, verge escapement with chain fusee, grande sonnerie on wire gongs, alarm on bell, repetition. Repair stamp on the plate: “Hoser Budan”.
Cf: Peter Fritsch, Wiener Reiseuhren, Vienna 2010, p. 88.
A mantel clock and a “Laterndluhr” by Böck are in the Geymüller Schlössel (MAK, Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna (Inv.No. 1603 and 1512).