3: A WATERBURY FLOOR STANDING REGULATOR MODEL 61

A fine, clean example descended through the family of the original owner, a jeweler in Odessa Missouri, and offered for sale here for the very first time direct from the home of his granddaughter. The oak case with original fancy top crown and finials, a cornice below there with oval dropped panels decorated by diagonal grooves in those drop panels, circular roundels at the four corners of the door and at four corners around the original shiny porcelain enamel dial with hand painted roman numerals, original glass in the door, original large brass lyre form pendulum in front of the original single weight. The cabinet form base with a large oval dropped panel decorated with diagonal carved grooves in the oak panel matching those above and surrounded by applied carved fan shape spandrels and four roundels, all on a thick molded oak base. Measures 95 inches high, 28 inches at the widest molding and 13 inches deep at this same point. A picture of this clock in that Odessa Missouri jewelry store is forthcoming.
Very good refinished condition, one 4 x 6 inch return on the left side of the top crown is a replacement, long ago a pine support was installed behind the uppermost potion of the crown connecting it to the top of the case for stability, the dial is clean except for one 4-inch fine hairline near the numeral 7, there are no other dial lines, cracks, stars or scratches, two latch hooks and eyelets have been added to the door, there is no key for the door lock, original winding crank is present, a rub on the pendulum. Very good running condition.
$5,000 - $10,000