CLOCKING IN with Adrian Overton of Overton Clocks A Royal Gift This month has seen us fully restore a quite important clock. This triple weight grand Sonnerie striking "Vienna dock was a gift from King Carol I of Romania to his Prime minister Tache lonescu in the winter of 1900. The lid walt cse has bn iicaly caved by hand and was peobubly made in Romnia doe to he syle of the carving. The caned nd piced oolm o dhe door a uly de from one solid piece nd hve bes dificl to mke witho making a ke. The sop of the ce is caned o cwih peeing erical panens and cries the initish T and C The "Trpesenting Tahe lonesco and the seylised "Cfr King Can The "Ch beon carved in a seyle that is ideical to King Carols emblem with a bll and cup to the ceere of the cure The clok has beon ained ia a dark mahogany colour so rypical of Romanian farninane of the tie and is fniod wich handade nial The Asrian Grand Sonnerie king mme h be very well made and mainining pwer and a inricaly made pondlem cnck The poealy whie ponulin dl has me h eo onanly nnadable dee to war and nubbing Aleg wish he cdeck dene i a pictare framod certia fom King Casol 1 and the Misher of Foecign Aain Chanceler ofOsden, umbod 2448 ch doalls the pt of Tahe loncu heoming a mber of the onder of the cwn of Romani in the rank of knigh. Alonpide thie van is he ac Knigh's Medd wwded so wih a ploogaph Tache loncu wis his daghes and wpaate picnune of he King As pat of the pownnce, the is a hnd weknos s dhe bom of the piaune fo a die ly deendn hat decals dhe name of the penon I sopid dhe dock f Tahe loneso wasa coeative and i ogsed a haing woppol the Balkan J Wr from ening Rmnia Tke or Tache ona Ronin peowanciation e jn bora Dmn Ghia lon and okown a Dectria G lon Ober 25 OS Ober 1 1838-2 1922w Remanian crist June cian p rnd who sal dpl o enjoyed ngutaen a a sho ory bo Searting his polickal caneet as dial mber of ebe Naional Liberl Parry PNL he jlsed the Conrvative Parry in 191, and became noed a a social cosrvative cpecing ppot foe evenl give and enalt e lonesc is gseally viwed as ebodying he e of middleds peliis inle the ely 20 ceary Kinplo of Romanis (occasionly deuibol Takiml, and theoug he period promoted a pjat of N anos whle clling for me incopone the R d Aso Hngarian ngon of Thanvai B and BekoviReping hi n aios inide the Coseraive Par he clahed with the grops ladesbip in 1907-1908 and cosly ceed ed his own Conservative-Decratic Pary Overton Clocks of Chesterfield Ltd, 270-272 Chatsworth Road S40 1UT T: 01246 204978 www.overtonelocks.co.uk CLOCKING IN with Adrian Overton of Overton Clocks A Royal Gift This month has seen us fully restore a quite important clock. This triple weight grand Sonnerie striking "Vienna dock was a gift from King Carol I of Romania to his Prime minister Tache lonescu in the winter of 1900. The lid walt cse has bn iicaly caved by hand and was peobubly made in Romnia doe to he syle of the carving. The caned nd piced oolm o dhe door a uly de from one solid piece nd hve bes dificl to mke witho making a ke. The sop of the ce is caned o cwih peeing erical panens and cries the initish T and C The "Trpesenting Tahe lonesco and the seylised "Cfr King Can The "Ch beon carved in a seyle that is ideical to King Carols emblem with a bll and cup to the ceere of the cure The clok has beon ained ia a dark mahogany colour so rypical of Romanian farninane of the tie and is fniod wich handade nial The Asrian Grand Sonnerie king mme h be very well made and mainining pwer and a inricaly made pondlem cnck The poealy whie ponulin dl has me h eo onanly nnadable dee to war and nubbing Aleg wish he cdeck dene i a pictare framod certia fom King Casol 1 and the Misher of Foecign Aain Chanceler ofOsden, umbod 2448 ch doalls the pt of Tahe loncu heoming a mber of the onder of the cwn of Romani in the rank of knigh. Alonpide thie van is he ac Knigh's Medd wwded so wih a ploogaph Tache loncu wis his daghes and wpaate picnune of he King As pat of the pownnce, the is a hnd weknos s dhe bom of the piaune fo a die ly deendn hat decals dhe name of the penon I sopid dhe dock f Tahe loneso wasa coeative and i ogsed a haing woppol the Balkan J Wr from ening Rmnia Tke or Tache ona Ronin peowanciation e jn bora Dmn Ghia lon and okown a Dectria G lon Ober 25 OS Ober 1 1838-2 1922w Remanian crist June cian p rnd who sal dpl o enjoyed ngutaen a a sho ory bo Searting his polickal caneet as dial mber of ebe Naional Liberl Parry PNL he jlsed the Conrvative Parry in 191, and became noed a a social cosrvative cpecing ppot foe evenl give and enalt e lonesc is gseally viwed as ebodying he e of middleds peliis inle the ely 20 ceary Kinplo of Romanis (occasionly deuibol Takiml, and theoug he period promoted a pjat of N anos whle clling for me incopone the R d Aso Hngarian ngon of Thanvai B and BekoviReping hi n aios inide the Coseraive Par he clahed with the grops ladesbip in 1907-1908 and cosly ceed ed his own Conservative-Decratic Pary Overton Clocks of Chesterfield Ltd, 270-272 Chatsworth Road S40 1UT T: 01246 204978 www.overtonelocks.co.uk