$3,450
“GLT” (Guilmet), Paris, No. 54, circa 1890. Fine and very rare steel, marble and gilt brass industrial clock in form of a hydraulic double-piston pump in a glass stand. Rectangular black marble base over steel floor with industrial floor pattern, the clock in the center housed in simulated engine station with gilt brass columns on each side, the top with an arm having attached pistons on each side in cylindrical steel pistons of different diameters with gilt brass edges. White enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel Breguet hands. Circular, brass, large going barrel, anchor escapement, spring suspension with X-shaped arrangement, pistons suspended with springs with cycloidal cheeks, micrometric regulator.Movement punched with maker’s mark.Dim. Height 19 cm, width 21 cm. Notes Industrial hydraulic pumps are perfect subjects for imaginative clockmakers, who can utilize the symmetric arrangement of the pistons to dreate a pendulum. “GLT” was one of such clockmakers, as he made some unusual clocks with different escapements. A clock made by him with a mysterious pendulum, is featured in the 3rd volume of the Antiquarian Horology, p. 170.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-12-01
