59,800 CHF
Auguste Pointaux, Horloger, 3 rue Cherubini, à Paris, specially made in 1845 for Doctor Armand Pouget. Fine and unique, eight-day going, hour and halfhour striking, moon phase astronomical, skeleton mantle regulator with the remontoire invented by Auguste Pointaux in 1841. White enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals, subsidiary annual calendar ring below the dial, revolving in front of a fixed pointer. Subsidiary sector at the top for the days of the week, with inner revolving moon globe. Bluedsteel Breguet hands. With twin going barrels, the going-train remontoire with double fly regulators wound by the striking train, Graham dead-beat escapement with jewelled pallets, halfseconds beating pendulum with wood rod and knife-edge suspension. Striking on a bell with a count-wheel on the back of the frame. Signed on the dial and the frame. In very good condition. Dim. 49 x 28 x 15 cm. Notes Pointaux - E, Louis Auguste. 1809-1885 h1 a report written by M. Francoeur made in 1840 to the Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale in the name of the Comité des Arts Mécaniques, on the horological workshops of M. Le Roy and two clocks of new design he remarks: Dans l'atelier de M. Le Roy, le chef est secondé par sept ouvriers et quatre apprentis. Ce chef fait par lui même le plus grand nombre des remontés-polis, et commande depuis dix ans aux hommes qu'il a sous sa direction. M. Pointaux est un excellent chef d"ateleier, qui se recommande à votre bienveillante protec
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14