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A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING ASTRONOMICAL MANTEL REGULATOR WITH COUP PERDU ESCAPEMENT, FULL CALENDAR AND MOONPHASE
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A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING ASTRONOMICAL MANTEL REGULATOR WITH COUP PERDU ESCAPEMENT, FULL CALENDAR AND MOONPHASE

PAUL GARNIER, HORLOGER DU ROI, PARIS, NO. 1797. DATED 1844

已結束2010年7月8日

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A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU QUARTER-STRIKING ASTRONOMICAL MANTEL REGULATOR WITH COUP PERDU ESCAPEMENT, FULL CALENDAR AND MOONPHASE
PAUL GARNIER, HORLOGER DU ROI, PARIS, NO. 1797. DATED 1844
CASE: substantial, with foliate cast mouldings, bevelled glasses, volutes to the angles, detachable top, front and rear bezels DIAL: white enamel seconds ring signed 'PAUL-GARNIER H.GER DU ROI', its reverse with enamellist's signature 'Droz fils 1843', counterpoised blued steel seconds hand, eccentric white enamel hour and minute ring, pierced ormolu hands, centred by a star-spangled blue enamel disc revolving to show phase of moon, a central white enamel disc giving age of moon via gilt pointer, recessed centre with coup perdu escapement and apertures for day of week, date and month shown on revolving enamel drums, winding squares concealed to sides of dial and hand-set below MOVEMENT: large twin barrels (mainspring signed 'Burel'), quarter snail and two bells to back plate, this dated and signed '1844/PAUL GARNIER/HORLOGER DU ROI', front plate numbered '1797', spring-suspended Mahler-type gridiron pendulum with fine adjustment to crutchpiece, swinging within beat scale, also applied with a stone-set royal crown to the bob; winding and setting keys
19 1/8 in. (49 cm.); 15¼ in. (39 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep

Christie's London, 14 June 2000, lot 63.

專家說明

Paul Garnier (1801-1869) is perhaps most famous for his contributions to the development of the French carriage clock industry but he also made a number of very fine quality mantel regulators. More usually these take the form of tall arched black marble timepieces (also with Mahler-type pendulums) such as the example sold Christies London,14 June 2000, lot 58 (£17,625). The present clock is altogether grander and more sophisticated in its functions. Garnier appears to have started signing his clocks 'Horloger du Roi' circa 1835 (see C. Allix, 'Paul Garnier Revisited', Antiquarian Horology, spring 1993, p. 423). In 1839 he sold a maximum-minimum thermometer to the Duke of Orléans. In 1844 -- the year this clock was made -- he is known to have made a clock for Versailles (Allix, p. 423). Whether this is the clock in question cannot be established but it is certainly of the quality one would expect for such a commission.