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A very fine early 19th century mahogany longcase regulator Perigall & Dutterrau, Bond Street
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £27,500 inc. premium
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A very fine early 19th century mahogany longcase regulator
Perigall & Dutterrau, Bond Street
The shallow caddy cornice supported on brass-fluted freestanding Doric columns over an elaborate throat moulding to a long trunk door of good figure flanked by canted corners, on a base with applied panel and double apron, the silvered one piece dial signed across the shallow arch above the Arabic minute track enclosing the subsidiary dials for running seconds (with Observatory marks) and Roman hours, all with counter-weighted blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with thick tapering plates united by four substantial knopped pillars, with maintaining power the wheels of five crossings all with high count pinions, the 'scape wheel screwed to the collet and with jewelled pallets to a long crutch with a cranked and weighted impulse arm to the steel and zinc gridiron pendulum suspended from a heavy circular brass bracket screwed to the substantial backboard. 1.98m (6ft 6ins) high.
The shallow caddy cornice supported on brass-fluted freestanding Doric columns over an elaborate throat moulding to a long trunk door of good figure flanked by canted corners, on a base with applied panel and double apron, the silvered one piece dial signed across the shallow arch above the Arabic minute track enclosing the subsidiary dials for running seconds (with Observatory marks) and Roman hours, all with counter-weighted blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with thick tapering plates united by four substantial knopped pillars, with maintaining power the wheels of five crossings all with high count pinions, the 'scape wheel screwed to the collet and with jewelled pallets to a long crutch with a cranked and weighted impulse arm to the steel and zinc gridiron pendulum suspended from a heavy circular brass bracket screwed to the substantial backboard. 1.98m (6ft 6ins) high.