Antique Lepaute Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 11/11/2001
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Catalog Description:

Very fine and extremely rare month-going weight-driven Valet Astronomique, with long case regulator, Huygens endless rope-winding, Berthoud offset compound pendulum, center-seconds, equation of time, annual calendar and thermometer. Le Paute a Paris, cabinet by Jean-Ferdinand-Joseph Schwerdfeger, circa 1775. Precision Timekeeper with 2 Complications and Thermometer; Le Paute a Paris, cabinet by Jean-Ferdinand-Joseph Schwerdfeger, circa 1775. Very fine and extremely rare month-going weight-driven Valet Astronomique, with long case regulator, Huygens endless rope-winding, Berthoud offset compound pendulum, center-seconds, equation of time, annual calendar and thermometer. C. Mahogany, glazed on the front, rectangular cresting above molded cornice supported by wooden corbels, paneled veneered plinth with molded base. D. By Barbezat, white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute dot divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, the center with rotating equation dial with red Arabic numerals. Annual calendar in aperture above 12 o'clock. "Louis XV" gilt brass hands. M. Circular brass movement, 17,5 cm, contained in a brass cylinder, cylindrical pillars with conical base,eight-driven, pin-wheel escapement with pins on one side of the escape wheel, heavy asymmetrical brass-steel Berthoud compound compensation pendulum with thermometer scale, spring suspension, Huygens endless rope winding, 146-tooth annular wheel driven by six-leaf pinion of 30-tooth star wheel jumping twice a day, equation cam set on the annular wheel, equation arm connected to a rack meshing with a wheel set underneath the equation dial which is spring loaded via a small cord and long steel sprng. Signed on the dial. Dim. 185 cm, base width 44 cm.

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