A Small Regency Ebonised
Table Timepiece with Alarm
by
John Berguer, Great Russell St., London
circa 1820
❝ We like: simplicity, size, singularity
Tiny-wee clock, patently a very posh bedside alarm and also quite possibly used as a
travelling timepiece as it is so incredibly small. Lovely original verge..
Simple is best – small is beautiful! ❞
The small breakarch case has a proportional brass handle at the top with delicate
mouldings, the glazed front door is brass lined with brass fillets to each angle, the
pull-wind alarm cord threads through the case on the right side, the moulded base is
supported on brass bracket feet.
The 4 inch silvered engraved dial is signed Berguer Great Russell Strt. BLOOMSBURY,
Roman chapter ring with outer minute track, diamond-pierced blued steel hands and
central calibrated alarm disc.
The movement with thick
brass rectangular plates,
four pillars, the going
train with chain fusee and
spring barrel, knife-edge
verge escapement with
short bob pendulum.
The alarm train assembly
typically with crown
wheel, double-headed
hammer and pull-wind
spring barrel mounted
on the backplate with
pendulum holdfast to one
side
SIZE: 9¾ ins. (25 cm.) high,
4¾in. (12cm.) deep, 6½in.
(16.5cm.) wide
John Berguer is recorded
working in Great Russell
Street in Bloomsbury,
West London between
1809 and 1821
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