Lot 1 Dα

Lighthouse model with a world clock

Lacquered copper and iron panel, brass skeleton pendulum movement with anchor escapement, the blades with eight clock faces driven via a cardan shaft. The central dial inscribed "New York", the others illegible save for "Moscow". The finial formed as a nautical arrangement comprising a mast flying the American flag, a sailor, and an anchor. The lacquer defective, the finial loose.
First half 20th C., the case attributed to Doll & Co. in Nuremberg.