18,000 CHF
Perpetual Calendar Remontoir d'Egalité Lyre Clock Jean Hoff, Francfort. Made for the French market, circa 1790. Exceptionally fine and extremely rare and unusual, month going, center-seconds, single barrel, Dutch hour and half hourstriking, lyre-shaped table clock with pin-wheel escapement, perpetual calendar of circles tournant construction, 30-minute remontoir, day and night indication and rocking sun. To be sold without reserve Lyre-shaped giltwood frame carved with leaves, rosette at the bottom, garlands and husks at the top, the whole on an oval gilt shaped base, the top surmounted by a sun rocking in action with the pendulum. White enamel annular ring with upright Roman numerals, gold outer minute ring with Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals. Gilt skeletonized hands with sunburst tips. Three white enamel concentric “circles tournant” calendar rings for months with corresponding Zodiac signs, date and days of the week with corresponding planet symbols, day and night ball above driven by a rod and rack and pinion from the movement. Circular, 15.5 cm, skeletonized brass, large single barrel driving the striking and the remontoir, while also advancing the calendar, pin-wheel escapement, knifeedge suspension, brass pendulum with large ring bob working behind the dial, the top with pointer indicating the date, count wheel with double divisions, two bells, calendar driven via three concentric shafts with perpetual transmission controlled by fouruneven- slot wheel, striki
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
