29,900 CHF
Verneuil à Paris, circa 1800. Very fine mahogany, month-going, hour and half hour-striking, centre-seconds, weight-driven long case regulator. Rectangular with glazed door and side panels, ogee pediment with dentilled frieze. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer minute ring. blued-steel skeletonised Breguet hands. Brass rectangular with cylindrical pillars, weight-driven going train with pin-wheel escapement, seconds beating grid-iron pendulum with knife edge suspension. Spring-driven st r iking train with going-barrel, the count-wheel on the back plate with an unusual system allowing a double blow on two bells for the hours and a single one for half hours. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dim. 216 x 60 x 33 cm. Notes Verneuil à Paris Very fine clockmaker, working in Paris rue du Contrat Social, circa 1806 and Faubourg Saint Martin in 1815. He made very unusual skeletonized mantel regulators with the grid-iron half seconds pendulum suspended above the movementThe craftsmanship of his long-case regulators is outstanding.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1993-11-14
