Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Gilt Metal

A Collection of Gilt Metal Clocks including a Swiza Eight-Day Desk Clock and Novelty Renaissance Quartz Timepieces - This lot comprises a collection of assorted timepieces, featuring a mid-20th-century Swiss desk clock and several miniature novelty quartz clocks. The principal item is a Swiza desk clock with a rectangular gilt metal frame, characterised by a beaded border and an inset maroon velvet-textured panel. The clock possesses an oval silvered dial with black Roman numeral hour markers and blackened hands. It is marked Swiza 8 to the upper dial and Swiss Made to the base, denoting an eight-day mechanical movement. The collection further includes five miniature novelty clocks fashioned from cast metal with a polished gold-tone finish. The forms represented include a motorcycle, a fire engine with an extending ladder, a propeller airplane, a small dome-top mantel clock, and a rectangular bracket-style clock. The dials of the dome-top, bracket, airplane, and fire engine models are marked Renaissance Quartz. Total width of grouping as displayed approximately 50 cm.