Beschreibung:

A Victorian black marble perpetual calendar mantel clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the backplate stamped with the initials J B.D within an oval, the three-rod compensating pendulum stamped with a repeat of the mark to the brass bob, the two-piece white enamel dial having a visible escapement with jewelled pallets, black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands and a sweep seconds hand, above a shaped glazed panel behind which sits the pendulum, with either side having two thermometers with enamelled dials for Fahrenheit and Reaumur, to the left a further dial showing phases of the moon, the date, the day, the month and the equation of solar time, to the right a further enamel dial for the barometer, with gilt hand and pointer, the black marble case shaped in the Egyptian style, height 45.5cm.