Ignacio Rocafort

Ignacio Rocafort, Barcelona, French, circa 1820. Rare and very fine, double face oscillating month going regulator with dead centre seconds. Designed as a grid-iron pendulum, the movement inset within the bronze bob with gilt bronze bezels engine-turned and chased with foliage decoration. White enamel on the front face with Breguet numeral and outer minute and seconds ring. White enamel on the rear face with Breguet numerals and outer minute ring. Blued steel Breguet hands with skeletonised tips. Brass circular full plate with conical pillars, going barrel, the pin-wheel escapement set on the back plate. vine rod gridiron with knife edge suspension. Signed both on the front and back dials. In very good condition. Dim. 135 x 36 cm. Notes An economic version of regulators of this type was much in favour late in the XlXth and early XXth century. Most of these swinging regulators with uncompensated grid-iron rod, were produced in Morez (French Jura) by Prosdame. They were made for the jewellers and watchmakers, to be hung in their window. Therefore the time could be seen both from the street and from the shop, and and constituted a kind of attraction. This early and very fine example is a true oscillating double face pendulum regulator, it can only be compared with very few other regulators of this type, made by Breguet and other fine makers on special request, to be hung in front of a miror or in an open niche between two rooms.