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Finchingfield Antiques has a wide range of antique longcase clocks (grandfather clocks), dial, mantel, and bracket clocks, vienna regulators, and antique barometers.
Our showroom in Essex always has a wide range of antique longcase clocks for sale.
The following are examples of the types of clock we sell.
 Antique longcase clocks
A weight-driven, floor standing clock with an anchor escapement and long, seconds pendulum. Typically of eight-day duration.
The example illustrated is a Figured Walnut, eight day Longcase Clock with brass dial and featherbanding, signed Samuel Day, Saffron Walden c.1730 and numbered 213.
Antique dial clocks
A type of English wall clock with a round dial or engraved brass, painted wood or iron. All are spring driven and usually have a fusee movement. Most are timepieces and do not strike the hours.
Bracket clocks
A type of spring driven clock sometimes known as a mantel or shelf clock, designed to stand on a surface.
The example illustrated here is a very fine quality, mahogany 8 day Bracket Clock signed Daniel Desbois, 10 Brownrow St., London. C.1830.
 Mantel clocks
Small bracket or table clocks, typically in a rosewood, mahogany or ebonised wood case, produced mainly in the first half of the 19th Century.
Vienna regulators
Extremely precise and finely made weight driven clocks - either wall hanging or floor standing - produced in Austria during the first half of the 19th C.
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