Edouard Wenger

Edouard Wenger, made at the Ecole d'Horlogerie, Genève, dated 1911. 911. Very interesting steel, brass, and wood seconds-beating electrical table regulator, a school masterpiece. On wooden oval base, glass dome (repaired at the bottom). Silvered, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sec-onds. Blued steel "spade" hands. On painted off-white cast iron frame, coil fixed to the frame close to the pendulum rod, mercurialpendulum in two steel cylinders, impulsed from the two coils via switch activated by a small pin protruding from the steel rod, unidirec-tional impulse to the escape wheel via pivoted detent mounted directly to the pendulum, powered by two batteries concealed in thebase.Dial signed.Dim. Height 46 cm, width 28 cm. Notes For a biography, see previous lot.