Rare Novelty Nautical Revolving Ships Wheel Desk Clock or Barometer

Circa 1970 ship's wheel clock & barometer set by August Schatz & Sohne, Germany. Royal Mariner clock is running; strikes hours & 1/2 hour; 8-day movement. ...

This Fine french four glass mantel clock has a beautifully gilded case with thick bevelled glass panels and doors. the eight day movement with visible jewelled Brocot escapement is m...

From a decommissioned Japanese ship, black Seiko analog clocks with brushed nickel faces. Battery mechanism updated and an easy opening on the back side. ...

This stylish desk clock made in the last quarter of the 19th century has a french eight day movement with a lever platform escapement. the movement is housed in a drum forming the ce...

This is a quality antique desk clock and barometer set having a quality oak case with ornate brass mounts. The two faces divided by a thermometer. 8...

Victorian desk clock / barometer set Gothic style carved oak case standing on a raised, moulded plinth surmounted by two brass flambeau finials and central architectural pediment. The clock to the left with cast bezel, silvered dial, Roman numerals, original steel hands, engraved to centre and signed ‘J.H.Steward, 54 Cornhill 406 and 66 Strand & 456 West Strand, London. The aneroid barometer with bevelled glass with brass cast bezel and engraved silvered dial. Five weather indications, the scale marked from 26 to 31 inches of mercury and central setting knob for the pointer. Centrally mounted spiral mercury thermometer with silvered, engraved scale for Centigrade and Fahrenheit. C.1890 ‘Barometer makers and retailers’ by Edwin Banfield lists James Henry Steward as working from various addresses in London including 406 the Stand, St Paul’s Churchyard, 54, Cornhill, etc. He was a prolific maker of all types of barometers during the second half of the nineteenth century. Maker of the celebrated Lord Bury Telescope and was commissioned by Admiral Fitzroy...

A very rare 19th century drum cased clock barometer, by Bourdon and Richards, Paris. This clocks innovative design has the barometer hand emerging from the centre of the clock hand a...

A desk clock in the shape of an Egyptian obelisk made by LeCoultre with an 8 day movement in the base, a crisp silvered dial and gilded numerals and batons set beneath a perspex obelisk. The black lacquered base has gilt mounts that continue the theme and repeat on all four sides. This is an extremely handsome small clock ideal as a gift or use as a desk clock, the dial is visible through the obelisk, the fine fully jewelled LeCoultre eight day movement is wound from the base, dating from the 1960's this mid century clock...

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Each in the form of a ship's wheel with 2.5 inch silvered dial, contained in cases, one with seven turned banded agate handles, the other with eight banded agate handles, each on ova...