Antique Isaac Thuret Clock

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

early balance spring hour and half hour striking traveling clock. Isaac Thuret, A Paris, circa 1690. Isaac Thuret, A Paris, circa 1690. Very rare and fine ebonized early balance spring hour and half hour striking traveling clock. C. Lyre-shaped with molded base and top, surmounted by a bell, hinged back door. D. Lyre-shaped gilt brass, applied silver ring with champleve radial Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour division and outer minutes from 1 to 60, regulator sector aperture at the top for the balance spring, decorated with floral engraving. Blued steel "Louis XIV" hands. M. Lyre-shaped, brass, baluster pillars, going barrels for going and striking trains, verge escapement, large three-arm steel balance, blued steel two-turn flat balance spring, two-footed plain gilt brass cock, brass count wheel on the back plate with blued steel "tulip" hand. Signed on dial. Dim. Height 34 cm, base width 15 cm.

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