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A rare and impressive 19th century French ormolu double-dialled ceiling mounted sunburst timepiece with gridiron pendulum and pin-wheel escapement Lepine, Paris image 1
A rare and impressive 19th century French ormolu double-dialled ceiling mounted sunburst timepiece with gridiron pendulum and pin-wheel escapement Lepine, Paris image 2
A rare and impressive 19th century French ormolu double-dialled ceiling mounted sunburst timepiece with gridiron pendulum and pin-wheel escapement Lepine, Paris image 3
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A rare and impressive 19th century French ormolu double-dialled ceiling mounted sunburst timepiece with gridiron pendulum and pin-wheel escapement
Lepine, Paris

11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,812.50 inc. premium

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A rare and impressive 19th century French ormolu double-dialled ceiling mounted sunburst timepiece with gridiron pendulum and pin-wheel escapement

Lepine, Paris
Complete with separate steel and gilt-brass wall bracket with fixed impulse pin (mounted on a threaded rod for beat adjustment), to the massive grid-iron pendulum consisting of four brass bars centred by a steel rod carrying the long shaped steel hand reading against an engraved silvered scale for 'Dilation' and 'Condensation', each of the 11.5 inch reverse-painted glass chapter rings signed for Lepine, Paris, (the front with centre seconds hand), set in an elaborate cast starburst frame the spring driven movement with single barrel in a pair of skeletonised plates formed as a wheel of five crossings, with pin-wheel escapement wound from the rear.

59cms (1ft 11ins) wide.

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