Lot 273 , Alexander Bain Patentee, a Victorian table top regulator, 37cm wide, 24cm deep, 40cm high
Alexander Bain Patentee, a Victorian table top regulator, with later mahogany four glass case and silvered Roman dial with subsidiary thirty second dial, single fusee movement with anchor escapement and heavy brass pendulum, 37cm wide, 24cm deep, 40cm high
£700-900
Alexander Bain (1810-1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock.
Condition:
Overall looks to be in good untouched condition, some oxidisation to the main dial but no other faults noted, comes with winding key.
Sold for £950