Clock with a depiction of the Zagreb Chapter


made in Croatia with an Austrian mechanism first half of the 19th century Iron sheet, painted height 30.8 cm, width 21.9 cm, depth 13.3, cm On a semicircular addition to the clock housing, above the dial, view of the old Zagreb Cathedral and part of Bakaceva street. The iron hands were pushed onto the mechanism. Above the numeral XII a handle comes out with a short pendulum. The weights and waking-up mechanism are missing. The clock is run by a pendulum with a verge wheel. The mechanism with a stop plate strikes out full hours. The clock can be classified as being of the so-called 'Schwarzwald' type. Donated to the Museum in 1897 by the Zagreb watchmaker A.F. Venutti di Pietro. N. Premerl, Satovi zagrebackih urara 18. i 19.st., Zagreb, 1968-69, page 15; G. Szabo, Stari Zagreb, Zagreb, 1941, illustration 78; M. Skiljan, Stare mjere, Zagreb, 1975, catalogue number 36.




HPM/PMH-002109