LATERNDL CLOCK

Clockmaker: Philipp Fertbauer (1763 Vienna – 1820 Vienna)

Date: Vienna, ca. 1810

Measurements: H 148 cm

Signature: PHILIPP FERTBAUER IN WIEN

Description: duration 8 days

Walnut veneered case, partly ebonised, enamel dial, indication of seconds, weekdays, date and month, engine turned gilded bezel, blued steel hands, glass enclosed movement, deadbeat escapement with integrated anchor, grande sonnerie on two bells, two weights, knife edge suspension, three rod steel seconds pendulum.

Cf.: Frederick Kaltenböck: Die Wiener Uhr. Wien – Ein Zentrum der Uhrmacherei im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, München 1988, p. 187, cat. no. 405, 406.