14,950 CHF
“Rise and Fall Hours” Invente Par Mr. Le Marquis de Courtanvaux, Execute a l'hotel de Louvois par Alexandre Le Roy. Dated 1777. Very fine and extremely rare, important, ebony, bronze and gilt bronze eight-day going table clock in the form of a column with rise-and-fall hour indication, swivelling hand and hour and half-hour striking. Fluted bronze pillar containing the rise-and-fall hour mechanism with gilt bronze molded base and surmounted by an ornamental armilliary sphere, ebony plinth with molded cornice and base, hinged doors to three sides, the fourth with gilt brass beaded bezel, a brass plaque below engraved “Alexandre Le Roy, 1777,” paneled base with glazed brass side panels, block feet. Silvered linear scale for the hours with Roman numerals 1-12 down one side and 1-12 upwards on the other side, minute dial in the plinth with silvered chapter ring, radial Arabic five minute numerals and outer minute track, matted gilt brass center. Fine steel fleur-de-lys hand. In three-parts, linear construction, gilt brass, going train with rectangular plates, four cylindrical pillars, spring barrel, center wheel arbor directly driving the minute hand, the hours driven by another wheel on the center pinion meshing with two further wheels within a sub-frame and in turn meshing with a steel rack, the hand being turned by a rack and pinion activated by a lever acting against a pin mounted at each extreme of the slotted plate, recoil anchor escapement, silk suspension, brass bob
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
