Antique Gustav Becker Grande Sonnerie, wall clock,1890 original Vienna regulator

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Antique Gustav Becker Grande Sonnerie, wall clock,1890 original Vienna regulator:
$2086.00

Gustav Becker 3 weight Vienna regulator 1895 Grand Sonnerie extra large, 64 inch.A very stunning and beautiful rare piece of antique furniture.A great centerpiecefor any home or office.They don\'t get any better than this one extra largeand was the pinnacle of quality Gustav Becker clocks.full pillars and not a reproduction.This clock tick\'s and tock\'s and gongs smooth and precise.Has new catgut cables installed and was cleaned and oiled.Duel gongs strike every 1/4 hourKeeps good time. 8 day clockThe outside measurements are a very large 64 inches tall from it\'s tallest peaks, and a large 20 1/2 inches wide from it\'s widest peaks and 8 inches deep.The ornate clock face is 7 inches in diameter.Please look at all pictures. Feel free to ask any questions.Don\'t forget to check out this weeks other clocks. This clock will be packed with Great Care.More HistoryThe Braunau factory started operation in early 1888, making their own weight driven wall clocks based on Austrian design features such as the four-post movement mounting bracket, wide tooth spacing of the escape pallets, etc. It appears that all the spring driven wall clocks they made used movements from the Freiburg factory but those were installed in Braunau cases. These included a number of \"Amerikaner\" design movements from 1912 to 1914 and again from 1918 to 1925; however these movements had superior features compared to those used by Freiburg for their own production. Included were adjustable deadbeat escapements, solid cut pinions, and solid back plates. These movements were assigned Braunau serial numbers as they were finished. They continued operation right through WWI and up to mid-1925 when their own production was stopped, but they continued assembly of clocks with movements supplied by Freiburg. This factory was taken over by Junghans in May 1930 together with all the other GB facilities in Freiburg, after that time they only assembled Junghans clocks up to about 1954.
The Braunau factory had its own unique set of serial numbers from \"1\" to about 922000 that were completely separate from the Freiburg numbers. This leads to \"many\" incorrectly dated Braunau clocks because only the Freiburg numbers have been widely published up to now and for what it\'s worth those are completely wrong after 1900. I have created comprehensive databases of more than 5,000 clocks including both Freiburg and Braunau that are accurate to the nearest half-year or closer, which are available on the NAWCC Message Board