134,500 CHF
ROBIN MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH EQUATION OF TIME Robin Fils à Paris. Dated 1802. Extremely fine and important, month-going, mahogany and gilt-bronze, center-seconds table regulator with meantime and solar equation of time, annual calendar with months and number of days, one-minute remontoire d’égalité and gridiron pendulum with temperature indication. Architectural polished mahogany, glazed on four sides and with very fi nely chased gilt-bronze rope-twist and stiffleaf mounts, top with gilt-bronze framed glazed aperture, both doors with concealed sprung locks, the front door with gilt bronze bezel, leaf and berry spandrels and swag below, stepped base with gilt-bronze acanthus mount, gilt-bronze block feet. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, inner minute track, outer equation of time scale and outermost months with their respective number of days and zodiac symbols. Fine gilt-brass hour hand with “R” terminal, gilt-brass equation of time hand with sun terminal, blued steel calendar, minute and seconds hands. Twin interconnecting going barrels driving re-wind system for weight-driven one minute remontoire d’égalité mounted on the back plate, Graham-type dead beat escapement with fi ne beat adjustment to the crutch, pivoted knife edge suspension bracket secured to a gilt brass bracket for nine rod gridiron pendulum, the pendulum bob with temperature indication, equation of time kidney and calendar work mounted to the front plate under the dial; two brass weight
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-03-11
