The one day three train hexagonal movement joined by six baluster shaped pillars with threaded nuts to both sides, two fixed and engraved barrels for the strike trains, chain and fusee for the going train, verge en balance wheel escapement with pierced and engraved back cock, signed on the back plate of the movement Johan Eichsted Danzig, engraved and gilt calibrated hour strike count wheel and engraved, silvered quarter strike disc, the latter with  hand and set within a pierced and foliate engraved mount, the set up ratchet spring, pierced and engraved cock, chiselled arbors for the hammers with zoomorphic and thistle heads, the steel work blued. The gilt brass case with engraved and silvered frames to its glass side panels, the corners with cast and silvered metaphormic mounts on lion feet, gilt brass dial, the centre engraved with scene of a country house, engraved and silvered chapter ring with Roman ciphers and outer engraved gilt brass minute ring with Arabic ciphers for the minutes and Roman ciphers for the quarter markers, silvered base plate, turn catch and the openings set with strapped hour and quarter bell. 17,5 cm wide and 9 cm high, ca. 1680.

Johan (Johann, Hans) Eichsted (Eichstedt, Eichstädt, Eichstaedt, Eichstett, Eysted), a prolific clockmaker, was born in Elbing (Elblag) in 1637, came to Danzig (Gdansk) before 1665 and became a citizen in February 1666. He was city-clockmaker from before 1678 till after 1686 and responsible for the maintenance of the musical clock work of the city hall in the years 1678 and 1679. He died 1709. Several clocks signed with his name are in public collections.

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Dr. Zuzanny Prószynskiej – Zegary Gdanskie – Muzeum Historyczne Miasta
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Tardy – French Clocks , Clocks The World Over - Volume IV - page 409
Klaus Maurice – Die deutsche Räderuhr - Part II - images 616 & 619
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