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A 19th century mahogany floorstanding regulator Joyce, Whitchurch
16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £11,250 inc. premium
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A 19th century mahogany floorstanding regulator
Joyce, Whitchurch
the plain arched case with chamfered moulding over the rectangular base with fielded panel, now raised on a veined marble plinth, the long glass door fitted with a silvered sight ring over a pierced foliate fret, the backboard fitted with an iron bracket for the movement and brass bracket for the pendulum suspension, the signed silvered regulator dial with outer minute register with Arabic five minute indication, seconds dial with observatory marks and ten second indication and Roman hour dial, the substantial weight driven shuttered movement with screwed pillars, maintaining power, deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets, pivots fitted with end caps and micrometer adjustment to the pendulum crutch. 193cm (6ft 4in)
the plain arched case with chamfered moulding over the rectangular base with fielded panel, now raised on a veined marble plinth, the long glass door fitted with a silvered sight ring over a pierced foliate fret, the backboard fitted with an iron bracket for the movement and brass bracket for the pendulum suspension, the signed silvered regulator dial with outer minute register with Arabic five minute indication, seconds dial with observatory marks and ten second indication and Roman hour dial, the substantial weight driven shuttered movement with screwed pillars, maintaining power, deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets, pivots fitted with end caps and micrometer adjustment to the pendulum crutch. 193cm (6ft 4in)
Footnotes
Reputed to have hung in the offices of Joyce until the workshop closed.