A fine and rare Victorian mahogany Longcase Regulator by Condliff, Liverpool.
The arched top with hinged door to one side, above glazed sides and front. The front with pierced and carved floral tracery. The panelled plinth with fine quality flame veneers. The 13 ¾ silvered brass dial signed Condliff of Liverpool with typical arrangement of main and subsidiary dials, finely engraved and having slender blued steel hands.
The movement being a very substantial lacquered gilt brass, 8 day duration with very rare twin weight drive of a single train movement. Having dead-beat escapement with jewelled pallets and beat adjustment. The movement also incorporating finely made lantern pinions and beautifully worked wheels. The arbours with jewelled adjustable stops. The very heavy mercury jar pendulum within steel and brass surround fixed to a rod of invar.
With careful regulating this clock can achieve an accuracy of 0.5 of a second per week. Dials signed by Condliff, are very rare indeed – usually being signed by the retailer.
The case, 199cm (H) 58cm (W) 32cm (D) - (stock no:571)
Fully serviced and guaranteed for one year.
Liverpool C.1880 probably had more people working in the clock and watch industry than any other city in the realm. James Condliff set up at 32 Gerrard Street, Liverpool in 1816 and his business went on to become one of the most successful in the country, known in particular for his superb regulators and skeleton clocks. The Condliff family was made up of James, Joseph, John and Thomas, and appears to run from 1816 to the 1940’s. |
