30,000 CHF
PRECISION TABLE REGULATOR French. Made circa 1850. Very fine and impressive, hardwood and boxwood, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking, precision table regulator with visible deadbeat escapement, dead center-seconds and gridiron pendulum. Rectangular, Empire-style, oak veneered with tropical hardwood with boxwood stringing, stepped entablature with dentilled cornice, four pillars, stepped plinth with boxwood mouldings and block feet, glazed on all four sides, the front and back panels sliding to open by removing the entablature top for access. Regulator-type with small silver hour and minutes dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, outermost silvered seconds chapter with seconds track and Arabic fi vesecond numerals, the center exposing the escapement and winding arbours, hand-setting arbour to the side of the dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. Massive, gilded-brass, arch-top plates, four pillars, secured to two massive gilt-brass brackets by screws, going barrels for both trains, deadbeat escapement, the pivot of the escape wheel extended to carry the seconds hand, brass anchor with steel pallets, steel depth adjustment screws, crutch with micrometer beat adjustment, fine brass and steel three-rod gridiron pendulum with lenticular bob, rating nut and two spherical threaded brass weights for fi ne adjustment, striking the hours and half-hours on a bell. Dim. 61 x 32 x 24 cm. Notes It is uncommon to fi nd a striking precision clock because striking work c Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-11-11
