$315,000
Charles Fasoldt's Patent Inverted Dial Regulator, Albany, for H. Eckert, Troy, New York, c. 1865, gilt-iron and glass case with full-length glass doors front and back, the front marked in gold leaf Observatory Time , capped top and bottom with molded walnut cornice and base trim, the top with wooden box protecting the pendulum T-bridge suspension, the roman numeral glass dial mounted in the lower section with clear center, silvered seconds dial and brass bezel all mounted to the four-pillar, shaped plate movement marked on the front plate great wheel bridge H. Eckert Troy N.Y./C. Fasoldt's Patent March 7, 1865 , eight-day duration with current three-pulley configuration, maintaining power, five-wheel train, the escape wheel arbor with two fifteen-tooth escape wheels, impulse fork with rollers, two-jar mercury temperature-compensating pendulum with steel rod, all powered by a three-pulley configuration and cylindrical brass weight, ht. 56 3/4 in. Note: Charles Fasoldt (1819-1889) was born in Dresden, Germany. By the mid-19th century he settled in Rome, New York, practicing the watchmaking trade, one in which he was particularly skilled. Fasoldt manufactured, exhibited, and won prizes for his eight-day watches, regulators, and pocket chronometers. After a move to Albany about 1860, where he manufactured award-winning tower clocks and astronomical regulators, he is credited with inventing a "peculiar double wheel escapement called 'Fasoldt's Chronometer'" (Derek Roberts, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-04-28
