Mouton a Versailles

Mouton a Versailles, circa 1810. Exceptional “Empire”, mahogany, 30-day going, floor regulator clock, striking hours and half-hours with center dead seconds, annular calendar, equation of time, and special maintaining power device. mahogany, rectangular, paneled trunk, sides with hinged ormolu-framed glazed doors, rectangular plinth with concave top molding, dado of choice-grain mahogany, molded surbase, the top with cornice over dentils. white enamel, convex and heavy, well polished, Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers accented by gold rhomboids, outermost annular ring with days marked in gold dots. Gilt brass pierced hands, poker equation hand with gilt sunrays in the center. rectangular, brass with pulleys set outside and wound through an intermediate gear, 4-wheel train, Lepaute pin-wheel escapement with pins on both sides of the escape wheel, micrometric depth adjustment and micrometric beat adjustment on the crutch, brass-iron gridiron pendulum with very heavy bob, spring-suspension set on a separate bracket mounted directly to the back case panel, manual maintaining power with a clock lever which when pulled by a cord applies pressure directly on the teeth of the center wheel, grooveless pulleys with double clicks to assure safety, striking on a bell by a hammer, epicycloidal Dauthiau type equation mechanism with a roller on the equation lever, heavy brass weights.Signed on the dial.Dim. Height 214 cm. Notes A very well made clo