c.1825 Large French Three-Month Skeleton Clock with Moon Dial and Simple Calendar.
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Period French
Inv. #: p128
Circa: 1825
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Movement
The three-month time and strike movement has thick, shaped skeletonized plates, tapered posts that are screwed front and back, steel rollers on the calendar work, countwheel striking, finely cut wheelwork and a small pinwheel escapement on the front end. The large, heavy grid-iron pendulum carries the screwed beat adjustment and is suspended from above by a suspension spring that is adjusted for fast/slow by a large horizontally mounted knurled screw.
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