...and have always lusted after one of those bog-standard British short-drop fusee clocks, the mechanism used in railway station clocks (one of which I'd dearly love to find), and number of stores and businesses, &c.
The Americans had a standard clock that filled that role, a Seth Thomas design called a "Regulator".
Anyway, was visiting a clockmaker friend and we got on the subject of these standard designs and how difficult it is to find a fusee over here, especially a railway one. He then said, while he didn't have a railway one, he did have one in a more decorative case. So it is I came home with this Manchester-made example:
He thought it dated to somewhere between 1880 and 1900, but a little research finds the maker, Richard Jagger, actually died in the 1860s and was building these in Hulme into the early 1850s, so potentially a fair bit older than thought.