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31509C.W
LEROUX, CHARING CROSS. AN EXCEPTIONAL EARLY SILVERED DIAL MAHOGANY DROP DIAL WALL CLOCK. CIRCA 1790.

A beautiful and very lightly restored mahogany drop dial clock. The case with a nicely shaped cast brass bezel has a drop trunk with integral ears at the side culminating after a strong moulding with a chisel bottom with full length opening door. There are doors on the side of the case for attaching the pendulum and viewing the movement.

The silvered dial which has age related stress fractures has inside Roman numerals and outside Arabic numerals and is signed for the maker Leroux, Charing Cross in flowing script.

The nicely fretted out blued steel hands have arrow pointers and the minute hand is counter balanced. The eight day gut fusee movement has tapered and footed plates and four nicely knopped pillars. The pendulum has a large and heavy brass bob and a nicely shaped and chamfered brass pendulum rod.

Length: 25″ (64 cms.)

Price band: B

The maker John Leroux is noted as a member of the Clockmakers’ Company from 1744 and worked from London, Charing Cross. He made a number of watches and is probably better known for his watch work than his clock work. Some pieces by him were in the Stern Collection and a bracket clock by him is illustrated in Cecinsky & Webster page 317, figure 357.