92,000 CHF
Lepaute Le jeune Invenit, circa 1780. Elegant and extremely rare mahogany one wheel weight driven long case regulator. Mahogany, glazed on face and sides with plain base, dentil comice beneath stepped moulded cresting and engine-turned gilt brass bezel. Silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring and subsidiary auto-reverse double 60 seconds slotted sector with pointer. Blued steel "poker and beetle" hands. Brass circular with mirror polished back plate and skeletonised front plate, pin-wheel escapement with sector shaped escape wheel, subsidiary double steel cylinder escapement mounted on its arbor and releasing every 60 seconds the very large escape wheel with pin-teeth placed alternatively on either side. Concealed motion work. Seconds beating pendulum with eliptical brass bob and beat adjustment on the crutch. Single weight with endless rope and double-pulley, maintained in tension by a small counter-weight. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dim. 198 cm. Notes Produced between 1775 and 1780, this dock is built on the principe of that invented in January 1754 and described and illustrated by Jean André Lepaute in his Traité d'Horlogerie, pp. 139-146, pl. XI, but without strinking train. Jean-Baptiste Lepaute called Le Jeune was born in 1727, one of the nine children of André Le Paute a blacksmith at Thonnelalong. In 1747 Jean-Baptiste moved to Paris to join his brother Jean-André in the clock-making business that he had begun in 1
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-10-21
