Turret Clock in Brewhouse Tower
Category
Horology
Date
1858
Materials
Iron, steel, brass, pine, and paint
Measurements
68 x 76 x 45 cm
Collection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719929
Summary
8 day English hour-striking turret clock, signed by Tupman, London, 1858. 2 train, cast iron, posted frame construction movement (remains of black paint on frame). Dead-beat escapement, wood rod pendulum and bolt and shutter maintaining power. 9” diameter going great wheel and 10” diameter striking great wheel. The rack hour striking acts on a bell mounted in the cupola above the clock (not inspected). The 5” diameter brass setting dial, which has roman hour numerals and arabic five minute figures (dial reversed, running anti-clockwise) is engraved: “TUPMAN / OLD BOND STREET / LONDON / 1858”. The movement was fitted with a Huygens-type electric auto-winding mechanism to both trains in 1996. There is a single black-painted dial with gilt hours and minutes and gilt-copper ‘diamond-spade’ hands, in the gable of the building, immediately in front of the movement.