Monumental Antique Rocking Ship Automaton Clock, Circa 1840
Monumental Antique Rocking Ship Automaton Clock, Circa 1840.From the First Golden Age of automata Our Mariner’s spectacular… Timepiece movement No. 712, eight day duration, with silk suspension, striking on a bell hours and half hours,Rocking ship movement No. 169, four pillars, four/five hour duration. When tiny winding spindle hole plug removed at front for key access and start/stop bar to right-underside actuated, the delicate sailing ship upon choppy sea bobs and rocks most realistically, as time passes by below.