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A Splendid 10-Day Duration Tripod Table Clock
A Splendid 10-Day Duration Tripod Table Clock
Dimensions: H: 19.5 in / 50 cm | Dia: 10 in / 25 cm
PRICE: £38,000
A Splendid 10-Day Duration Tripod Table Clock
By Thomas Cole
Retailed by Mackay Cunningham & Co
of Edinburgh
No. 1328 / 39
The circular stepped gilt bronze base, resting on three screw-adjustable hexagonal feet, supports three equidistantly spaced brass circular pillars, from which the clock and its' mechanism is suspended; the foliate engraved circular base inset with a glazed demi-lune silvered aneroid barometer, calibrated for barometric inches of pressure, also an etched brass framed thermometer, angle set, marked with the Fahrenheit scale and a pendulum beat scale rising to double up as a pendulum holdfast, within a recessed field, finely engraved with foliate scrollwork; housed within a brass bezel is the circular etched and engraved silvered steel dial, with retailer’s cartouche at the top, having the hours marked in Roman numerals, with a subsidiary dial showing the seconds, delineated in Arabic numerals; below, a pendant cartouche incorporating the winding square; the tapered two-tier 10-day movement with eight graduated pillars screwed through the plates, enclosing a Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement, the lower section containing a spring barrel and a second wheel with a knurled hand setting screw to the backplate; the upper frame has a small plumbline bob at the apex, and a pendant wide bracket to suspend the steel alloy bob pendulum, with a screw adjustment to the spherical silvered brass bob. together with the original setting and winding key. Back of the spring going barrel plate numbered ‘1328 / 39.’
English, Circa 1855
Thomas Cole made several variations of tripod timepieces, and singles out this particular series number “whose final design is close to proportional perfection” (276)
According to the Thomas Cole numbering system, only 71 tripod clocks were made, with 27 documented examples positively identified by John Hawkins (latest figures from 2025).
Comparative Literature:
Hawkins, J. B. 1975. Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking. Sydney: J.B. Hawkins., pp 108-109, illustrating a related example.
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