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A fine and rare mid 19th century English table regulator Dent, London no. 860
16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
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A fine and rare mid 19th century English table regulator
Dent, London no. 860
The 4.25 inch silvered Roman dial with angled sight ring framing the engraved minute band, the subsidiary seconds dial marked in Arabic tens and intersecting the numeral XII, with blued steel hands and signed above VI,
the chain fusee movement with four tapering turned pinned pillars and spotted circular plates, maintaining power and deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets, the pallet arbor set on a pair of shaped jewelled cocks above the main plates, the train fully jewelled in double- and triple- screwed chatons, signed on the backplate, the pendulum with T-bar suspension mounted on a substantial A-frame with beat adjustment via the crutch and terminating in a sealed jar of mercury with regulation nut reading against a silvered beat scale marked 3-0-3 in half divisions,
the multi-piece case with dentil cornice set on four Doric columns raised on a square section plinth further mounted on a stepped base, the whole supported on a rosewood plinth
55cms (21.5ins) high.
The 4.25 inch silvered Roman dial with angled sight ring framing the engraved minute band, the subsidiary seconds dial marked in Arabic tens and intersecting the numeral XII, with blued steel hands and signed above VI,
the chain fusee movement with four tapering turned pinned pillars and spotted circular plates, maintaining power and deadbeat escapement with jewelled pallets, the pallet arbor set on a pair of shaped jewelled cocks above the main plates, the train fully jewelled in double- and triple- screwed chatons, signed on the backplate, the pendulum with T-bar suspension mounted on a substantial A-frame with beat adjustment via the crutch and terminating in a sealed jar of mercury with regulation nut reading against a silvered beat scale marked 3-0-3 in half divisions,
the multi-piece case with dentil cornice set on four Doric columns raised on a square section plinth further mounted on a stepped base, the whole supported on a rosewood plinth
55cms (21.5ins) high.
Footnotes
Literature – Roberts, 'British Skeleton Clocks' ACC 1987, Figure 6/15 a and b, colour plate 40.
Also Roberts, 'English Precision Pendulum Clocks' Schiffer, 2003, Fig 20-9A and B.
A similar example, number 522 is illustrated in Staeger '100 yeaers of Precision Timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold and Frodsham 1763-1862' 1997, p815. See also Mercer, 'Edward John Dent and his Successors' AHS 1977 p 261.
Sothebys 'Masterpieces from the Time Museum, 2 December 1999, lot 72.