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Lot 277 |PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RESTAURATION FLAME MAHOGANY LONG-DURATION LONG CASE REGULATEUR
CIRCA 1820
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A RESTAURATION FLAME MAHOGANY LONG-DURATION LONG CASE REGULATEUR
CIRCA 1820
The architectural case with stepped top with dentil and beaded moldings, with conforming moldings to the stepped plinth and bead-and-reel moldings to the glazed front door, doors to front and right side released by hidden spring catches, with ormolu milled and reeded bezel to a glass dial with painted gilt Roman chapters, with subsidiary up/down ring calibrated to 100 days and subsidiary seconds ring, gilt Breguet hands, the skeletonized movement supported on projecting pillars from a brass back plate, powered by a rectangular lead weight sliding down behind the backboard, the in line train mounted on a single bar, wheels with five spiral crossings, pinwheel escapement with substantial steel and brass rhomboidal pendulum with single zinc cross-bar; crank key, door release pin
85 in. (33.5 cm.) high, 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1820
The architectural case with stepped top with dentil and beaded moldings, with conforming moldings to the stepped plinth and bead-and-reel moldings to the glazed front door, doors to front and right side released by hidden spring catches, with ormolu milled and reeded bezel to a glass dial with painted gilt Roman chapters, with subsidiary up/down ring calibrated to 100 days and subsidiary seconds ring, gilt Breguet hands, the skeletonized movement supported on projecting pillars from a brass back plate, powered by a rectangular lead weight sliding down behind the backboard, the in line train mounted on a single bar, wheels with five spiral crossings, pinwheel escapement with substantial steel and brass rhomboidal pendulum with single zinc cross-bar; crank key, door release pin
85 in. (33.5 cm.) high, 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34 cm.) deep
A RESTAURATION FLAME MAHOGANY LONG-DURATION LONG CASE REGULATEUR
CIRCA 1820
The architectural case with stepped top with dentil and beaded moldings, with conforming moldings to the stepped plinth and bead-and-reel moldings to the glazed front door, doors to front and right side released by hidden spring catches, with ormolu milled and reeded bezel to a glass dial with painted gilt Roman chapters, with subsidiary up/down ring calibrated to 100 days and subsidiary seconds ring, gilt Breguet hands, the skeletonized movement supported on projecting pillars from a brass back plate, powered by a rectangular lead weight sliding down behind the backboard, the in line train mounted on a single bar, wheels with five spiral crossings, pinwheel escapement with substantial steel and brass rhomboidal pendulum with single zinc cross-bar; crank key, door release pin
85 in. (33.5 cm.) high, 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1820
The architectural case with stepped top with dentil and beaded moldings, with conforming moldings to the stepped plinth and bead-and-reel moldings to the glazed front door, doors to front and right side released by hidden spring catches, with ormolu milled and reeded bezel to a glass dial with painted gilt Roman chapters, with subsidiary up/down ring calibrated to 100 days and subsidiary seconds ring, gilt Breguet hands, the skeletonized movement supported on projecting pillars from a brass back plate, powered by a rectangular lead weight sliding down behind the backboard, the in line train mounted on a single bar, wheels with five spiral crossings, pinwheel escapement with substantial steel and brass rhomboidal pendulum with single zinc cross-bar; crank key, door release pin
85 in. (33.5 cm.) high, 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34 cm.) deep
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 2007, lot 137.
Derek Roberts, Precision Pendulum Clocks, The Quest for Accurate Timekeeping, Schiffer, 2003, pp. 93-95 (illustrated).
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