Unlike the early

 Bracket 

gives its name to the most popular clocks made in England between the 17th and the 19th century is taken from the bracket they used to be mounted on. The first clocks of this kind were manufactured to match the furniture they were placed on, often made with the same material and sometimes with identical decorative motifs. The foldaway handle was used to carry them from one place to another.

clocks, conceived to be placed on a shelf or a matching piece of furniture, this table clock was designed to be placed on a table or a mantelpiece.

The casing in which the silvered brass dial is held has two circumferences with black numbering, Roman for the hours and Arabic for the minutes. The hands are in blued bronze openwork. The upper part contains a calendar dial. Both elements are superimposed on a gilded background profusely decorated with flowers, ornamental motifs and little heads. One can see whether the clock is moving or stopped thanks to a little window located on the central axis of the face, over the hands, which allows a view of the inside. The half pendulum mechanism has two trains, a chiming train and a motion train. It strikes on the hour and half-hour and on demand, and has a mainspring, fusee snail and fusee. The name of the company, Tho. Windmills LONDON, appears both on the back plate, which is etched with floral motifs, as well as on the face.

The casing, a parallelepiped structure in mahogany wood, is posterior to the mechanism. It is adorned with gilded bronze repoussé appliqués with vegetal motifs and swans which hold a laurel crown, and topped with bronze acorn finials. It rests on four feet made in the same material in the form of lion’s paws. It has handles and intricate latticework sound frets on the sides, and both the front and back doors are in glass.