Lot 55
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Synchronome Electric. An English mahogany battery/mains power supply electrically reset gravity arm master clock, circa 1925 and later
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Synchronome Electric. An English mahogany battery/mains power supply electrically reset gravity arm master clock, circa 1925 and later

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Synchronome Electric. An English mahogany battery/mains power supply electrically reset gravity arm master clock, circa 1925 and later
The pediment top case with carving, formerly with bracket, replaced dial and movement, silvered dial signed SYNCHRONOME ELECTRIC, seconds beating invar rod pendulum with steel bob -- 53½ in. (136 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Alan and Rita Shenton, Collectable Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, p.354, fig.388.
This is an early Synchronome Co. case style and appeared in an advertisement in the Horological Journal in 1920. Prices ranged between £6 and £12.12s, depending on whether the pendulums were 3/4 seconds or seconds type and whether their rods were plain invar or certified invar rod.

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