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English Ebonized Bracket Clock with Quarter-Hour Repeat, Benjamin Sidey, London. 1760.

A superb early Georgian ebonized bell-top bracket clock with bronze mounts and a quarter repeat movement made for the Spanish Market by Benjamin Sidey, London. The well proportioned chamfered brass bound case has numerous well cast mounts that include the carrying handle, four caryatids and finials, brass moldings around all the openings and at the top, a shaped brass skirt and four bold bracket feet. There are two well pierced and engraved fabric backed frets to each side and matching spandrels to the front and back doors.

The broken arch dial has cast floral spandrels, floral engraving, silver engraved chapters for the hours, strike/silent and rise/fall and a silver engraved nameplate, 'Benjamin Sidey, London'. The dial also has a finely matted center with apertures for the false pendulum and calendar and finely pierced steel cut hands for the hours, minutes, and both subsidiary chapters. The hour chapter has Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numbers for the minutes. The subsidiary chapters are in Spanish - the rise/fall with 'Atrasa' and 'Adalanta' and the strike/silent with 'Toca' and 'No Toca'.

The eight day time and strike double fussee movement has an elaborately engraved backplate, is fastened to the case by two engraved brackets, has 6 massive knopped and shouldered posts, well executed steel work and the original quarter-repeat mechanism. It still retains its original crown-wheel escapement and the pendulum has a steel rod, a brass lenticular bob and is suspended by steel suspension by the rise and fall arm. Moving the hand on the front of the dial slides the steel up and down in a narrow slit thus effectively changing the pendulums center of gravity and rate. The quarter-repeat mechanism is charged when the string out the base is pulled. Six hammers strike a sequence of six bells to repeat each passed quarter then strikes the hours on a separate larger bell.

Although it is rare to find a clock with both exceptional quality and wonderful proportions, this clock has both and would make nice addition to any collection.

Benjamin Sidey, is listed as becoming a master in 1761.

Sundial Farm Antique Clocks Ltd.

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