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• Lot n° 122 An early 18th century ebony veneered quarter repeating table clock timepiece with alarm and silent escapement Henry Massy, London An early 18th century ebony veneered quarter repeating table clock timepiece with alarm and silent escapement Henry Massy, London The inverted bell top case surmounted by a delicate knopped brass handle and a moulded cornice, the front door with pierced wood sound frets backed in red silk, the sides with similar frets above break arch glazed observation windows, terminating in a moulded base on four block feet. The 6 inch brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks and fleur-de-lys half hour markers, the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture, ringed winding squares and silvered Arabic alarm setting disc with blued steel hands framed by four cast brass spandrels, further engraved to the arch with a 1-31 calendar within floral engraving. The unusual movement with five knopped pillars, verge escapement with silent pallets to a short bob pendulum powered by a chain fusee, repeating the hours on a single bell and the quarters on a smaller bell, the back plate centred by a large stop-work wheel for the subsidiary alarm train, signed in an arc Henry Massy, London within a wheatear border. Ticking, repeating and with functioning alarm acting on the larger bell and a T-shaped steel hammer. Together with two case keys and a 19th century winding key. 41cm (16ins) high.