3,450 CHF
Lamotte à Liege, circa 1820. Very fine gilt bronze dead center-seconds striking, 8 day going, hour and half-hour-striking, coup perdu table regulator à colonnes. Portico form, rectangular pedestal with applied ormolu floral design, molded base, Doric type plain columns, rectangular top with molded cornice on rectangular dentils, engine turned bun feet. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, inner and outer minute divisions, winding apertures, bronze pierced hands. Circular, 117 mm, brass, going barrels, single-beat pin-wheel escapement with gravity locking, "Berthoud" gridiron compensation pendulum with knife-edge suspension and micrometric beat adjustment, count wheel on the back plate.Signed on the dial.Dim. Height 59 cm, width 29 cm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24