A fine quality mahogany bracket clock by the eminent maker's John Arnold and Edward Dent, the eight day fusee five pillar movement strikes on a bell with the shaped backplate engraved 'Arnold & Dent, Strand, London' and numbered '325'. The eight inch round convex painted dial has a repeat of the signature, black Roman hour numerals and blued steel moon hands, with a 'strike-silent' lever above and a cast brass bezel. The mahogany case brass mounts and stringing, a glazed pendulum aperture, gadroon moulding to the base and further well carved applied decoration to the front of the case and pagoda top.
John Roger Arnold and Edward John Dent had one of the most famous partnerships in horological history. Both men were eminent in the field of precision timekeeping in the early to mid 1800's and are recorded as working at 84, Strand, London, previously Arnold's address, from the formation of the partnership in 1830 until 1840 when Arnold continued alone despite the loss of his wife Mary in that year. J.R. Arnold was the son of the famous chronometer maker John Arnold and had worked for some years alongside his father improving on his work and in 1817 he was made Master of the Clockmakers Company. Dent had worked for the watchmaker Richard Rippon (whose widow he later married) and two of the foremost chronometer maker's of the time Vulliamy and then Barraud. After the partnership ended Dent set up his own successful business some two doors away in the Strand and made the Palace of Westminster clock commonly known as Big Ben.
The numbering system employed on their clocks started in 1830 at number 295 with the last number known to be used being 461. Assuming they were making clocks until the end of the partnership in 1840 the output would average 16 per year dating this one, no. 325, to 1832.
Height: 23 inches
Price: £6,250.00