The movement is powered by three springs for a duration of eight days, striking the hours and chiming the quarter hours on a set of eight variable length metal rods with eight movement hammers, playing Westminster chimes quarterly and full strike on the hour with full set of chimes. The lower section of the rear plate clearly states, “Urgos, Made in Germany, two jewels, Unadjusted with the number 6/37 A (possibly the date, June 1937) and the serial number 485856. This eliminates the need for a pendulum and makes this clock totally portable without losing or gaining time.
Instead of a pendulum suspension at the upper center of the rear plate one sees a well-made balance wheel with helical spring. Movement: This is a solid stippled brass rectangular plate movement with rounded corners, tubular pillars at the four corners hold the plates together and are held securely together with screws and nuts at the rear plate. There are steel machine stamped rococo Chippendale style hands while Dore bronze Chieftain spandrels are seen in the four corners of the dial. The dial center is marked for the retailer and the base of the dial is marked, “Made in Germany”. The dial center is Dore bronze and textured, with three winding apertures for the springs and a lever to adjust the chimes and to silence the chiming function. (Craft Member of the British Horological Institute), Marshall Field & Company” (Marshall Field was the Department store in Chicago from where the clock was purchased).ĭial: Brass alloy squared off dial plate with silvered Roman hour chapter ring, Fleur-De-Lys half hour markers, closed minute track to the outside with Arabic markers placed every five minute around the periphery of the chapter ring.
The inside of the door with a plaque that reads, ‘Henry E. The back of the case has a square oak door providing access to the movement compartment. The sides of the case have ovoid gazed side-lights and the base has an ogival stepped moulding leading down to straight bracket feet. Below is the square case façade and glazed dial door with chamfered corners. A notched metal carrying handle sits above theĭouble caddy top solid pediment and placed above a concave overhung cornice. PROVENANCE: "My grandfather bought this piece, been in the family for a long while."ĭESCRIPTION: Case: Approximately 15” in height, this is a light stained oak clock case made in the English bracket clock style.
TITLE: Art Deco era, Stained oak, three train, spring driven, eight day time, strike and Westminster quarterly chiming, mantel clock, made by the Urgos Clock Company, S/N 485856, made in Schwenningen, Germany, circa 1936. Thank you for sending in this mantel clock to for an appraisal.
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