Antique French or France Shelf Skeleton Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 4/13/2002
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Catalog Description:

Very fine and rare skeletonized month-going table regulator; French, circa 1830. French, circa 1830. Very fine and rare skeletonized month-going table regulator with equation of time, annual calendar, one-minute remontoire and special gridiron compensation. C. rectangular marble base with four gilt bronze bun feet decorated with stripes of beads. D. White enamel ring with radial Roman numerals and outer minute/seconds divisions, inner and outer ormolu frame with beaded patterns. Gilt brass "arrow" hands, blued steel equation hand with gilt sun at its tail, skeletonized center set with equation and motion trains. Below spoked silvered annual calendar wheel with blued steel "arrow" hand and equation cam below. M. Reversed Y-shaped gilt brass frame with four knurled level adjusting knobs, going barrel, three-wheel remontoire train winding endless rope having a weight and counterweight for driving the wheel which drives the escape wheel, pin wheel escapement, spring suspension set in a bracket mounted to gridiron compensating frame of four steel and four brass rods, steel rod, brass bob, Berthoud-type equation mechanism. Dim. 42 cm., width19 cm.

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