c.1850 French Table Regulator.

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c.1850 French Table Regulator.
Inv. #: p173
Maker:

Paul Garnier, Her Du Roi, Paris.  Number 1918.

Spring  -Borel

Ebauche – Barome Delepine, St. Nicholas

Pendulum design – Franz Joseph Mahler

Description:

c.1850 French 30 day table regulator with a black marble base, pinwheel escapement and compensating pendulum by Paul Garnier.

Dial:

The circular white porcelain dial has the seconds chapter around the outside edge, a subdial for the hours and minutes, steel-cut hour, minute and sweep second’s hands and is signed ‘Paul Garnier, Her Du Roi, Paris’.

Movement:

The 30-day time-only movement has substantial plates, screwed and pinned posts, and is wound out the front. The backplate carries the finely cut pinwheel escapement, the time-set and is stamped ‘Paul Garnier, Her du Roi, Paris’. The half-second compensating pendulum is suspended by a spring suspension and swings against an engraved silvered register plate. The movement is mounted to the black marble case by two large steel screws with large brass knurled ends.

Notes:

Spring inscribed ‘Borel, 184(?)’.

Dial, dial plate and the movement front plate all marked 1918′.

 

 

Ref:

For additional information and images of a couple of similar examples see: Precision Pendulum Clocks’, Roberts, pg.103.

Retail Price: SOLD

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