69,000 CHF
Attibuated to Jean-Louis Bouchet, France, circa 1800. Exceptionally fine and rare skeletonized month-going center seconds table regulator with equation of time, annual calendar, one-minute remontoire and special gridiron compensation. rectangular marble base with four gilt bronze bun feet decorated with stripes of beads. White enamel ring with radial Roman numerals and outer minute/seconds divisions, inner and outer ormolu frame with beaded patterns. Gilt brass “arrow” hands, blued steel equation solar hand with gilt sun at its tail, skeletonized center set with equation and motion trains. Below spoked silvered annual calendar wheel with blued steel “arrow” hand and equation cam below. Inverted Y-shaped gilt brass frame with four knurled level adjusting knobs, going barrel, three-wheel Robin-type remontoire train winding endless rope having a weight and counterweight for driving the wheel which drives the escape wheel, pin wheel escapement, spring suspension set in a bracket mounted togridiron compensating frame of four steel and four brass rods, steel rod, brass bob, beat adjustment by small knurled knob set with eccentric pin on the crutch, Dauthiau-type equation mechanism.Dim. 42 cm., width 19 cm. Notes The present clock was deamed so important by Tardy that he chose to put this piece on the cover of La Pendule Française dans le Monde, part II, devoted pp. 208-209 for the clock. A virtually identical clock, attributed to Jean-Louis Bouchet, Clockmaker to the King, wa
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14