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Lot 161W
A second quarter of the 18th century French kingwood longcase regulator with equation of time, moonphase and calendar Caron, Paris
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16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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A second quarter of the 18th century French kingwood longcase regulator with equation of time, moonphase and calendar
Caron, Paris
Surmounted by an ormolu figure of Chronos over the shaped hood with applied dragons and shaped trunk with lenticle and applied masks, raised on a plinth base, the signed 11 inch silvered Roman dial with moonphase to the arch, concentric equation of time, seconds hours and minute registers the signed centre with calendar aperture, counter balanced centre seconds hand and pierced hour and minute hands, the single train weight driven movement with pinwheel escapement, high count pinions and rectangular plates united by tapered knopped pillars, the substantial pendulum with steel rod of rhomboidal cross section and large brass cased lenticular bob with numbered rating nut. 244cm (8feet)
Surmounted by an ormolu figure of Chronos over the shaped hood with applied dragons and shaped trunk with lenticle and applied masks, raised on a plinth base, the signed 11 inch silvered Roman dial with moonphase to the arch, concentric equation of time, seconds hours and minute registers the signed centre with calendar aperture, counter balanced centre seconds hand and pierced hour and minute hands, the single train weight driven movement with pinwheel escapement, high count pinions and rectangular plates united by tapered knopped pillars, the substantial pendulum with steel rod of rhomboidal cross section and large brass cased lenticular bob with numbered rating nut. 244cm (8feet)
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The case is later and not period as stated in the catalogue.
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