The substantial brass frame with turned uprights and finials, three silvered dial rings, fusée movement with maintaining power, high-leaf pinion count to the train, signed to the reverse ANDREW FELL DEL. 1974 / SER. No. 002, on a stepped brass base, with glazed brass frame cover, mahogany base and marble plinth, with its original key and steel ball bearing
48cm wide; 36.5cm deep; 43.5cm high overall
Produced in a limited edition of 150, this is No.002 and was made in 1974. This form of clock was invented by Sir William Congreve in 1808. Congreve was an inventor best known for the Congreve rocket and the rolling ball clock. He was the Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich and was. also an MP.
Andrew Fell was born in 1919 and joined the army in 1939 as a specialist in communications and radar. Fell was the first Principal of the National College of Horology founded in 1947 and had a long and varied career within horology. He died in 1988.
CONDITION REPORT
In good original condition. With a service the clock is capable of functioning.
