Rare stock watch with repetition

Lot 5065 limit € 1.400

Ebonized wooden case, glazed on four sides, bronze decoration with pierced hood closure and carrying handle, ring dial with fine engraving and blackened Roman numerals, decorated steel hands, mock pendulum and date above 6 o'clock, switch-off for striking mechanism and gear regulation display at the top, signed Alexand. Hewitt, London, verge escapement, hour strike on bell and minute strike on 5 bells, engraved brass plate also signed, pendulum renewed, fine adjustment, various signs of age and minor additions, approx. 42 x 25 x 18 ccm, England 17th century, Alexander Hewitt learned his craft Benjamin Bell, a famous London watchmaker, he developed a new type of clock motor together with his teacher, Bell died before the end of his training, only grandfather clocks are known from Hewitt, only one bracket clock is noted in the literature