After the defeat of napoleon the middle class bourgeoisie started replacing the aristocracy in the civil service and vienna settled into the biedermeier period 1835 1848 where the bourgeoisie tried to imitate the traits of the aristocracy.
Vienna laterndluhr regulator wall clock.
59 150 cm mahogany with maple stripe inlay enamel dial fire gilded brass bezel seconds hand real compensation knife edge suspension duration of one year.
At the trade fair in vienna in 1845 the clockmaker alois schenk exhibited two observatory clocks with compensation pendulum one of them working for 3 years and two months.
Types of antique regulator clocks.
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Regulator clocks can be divided into three broad categories.
Vienna regulators gallery.
Philipp happacher in wien vienna circa 1820 length.
These are the laterndluhr clocks from the empire period.
The 101 vienna regulator clocks illustrated and described in this book cover a unique era of clock making which spanned the years from about 1790 to 1910.
Viennese regulator laterndluhr signed on the dial.
1695 2195 36 1856 7 c1875 vienna regulator by gustav becker the chimes 380 492 18 416 25 vienna wall clock by gustave becker wickersley antiques 390 505 13 427 21 a nice vienna weight driven wall clock by gustave becker wickersley antiques 1850 2396 12 2026 49 a walnut veneered lenzkirch wall clock c1890 overton clocks of chesterfield.
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When you look at these clocks they look like three boxes stacked on top of each other.
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For purposes of this book the vienna regulator era has been divided into the three periods of early middle and late.
Biedermeier and piecrust 1835 to 1848.
The durations varies between 1 4 6 weeks 2 3 6 or 9 months up until clocks with a year duration.