COMITTI, LONDON; THE EMPIRE FLOOR CLOCK, NO. 40, A MAHOGANY QUARTER TUBE CHIMING EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK

The case with a pierced swan neck pediment, above hinged bevelled glazed door, flanked to each side by fluted uprights and with a bevelled glazed panel to each side, above an arched glazed panel inset trunk door, flanked by fluted quarter columns and with a bevelled glazed panel to each side, on a rectangular base with carved outline, with stepped plinth, on ogee bracket feet; the 28cm arched dial detailed Comitti, London, with moon phase in the arch, above silvered chapter ring and Arabic chapters, seconds subsidiary below the 12, the German  three train movement chiming each quarter and with tune selector for Whittington, St. Michael or Westminster, and with a secondary selector for chime/silent/silent at night, the movement with deadbeat escapement; three brass cased weights and pendulum, with crank key