PAUL GARNIER, PARIS, NO. 8539; DATED 1870

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A Napoleon III ormolu-mounted black marble month-going table regulator
Paul Garnier, Paris, No. 8539; dated 1870
The white enamel Roman chapter disc signed Paul Garnier Paris with well sculpted blued steel Breguet-style hands and counter-balanced blued steel sweep centre seconds, the movement with substantial arched plates shouldered at the base and secured with three double-screwed plain pillars to the top and two double-screwed conical pillars at the base, the going barrel with high count train and pin-wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with high quality steel and brass three-rod grid iron pendulum spring-suspended from a brass backplate bracket and with fine adjustment to the crutch-piece, the backplate engraved Paul Garnier, 1870 and numbered 8539, the black marble plinth case banded with an ormolu moulding.
19¾in. (50cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Paul Garnier (1801-69) is considered by many to be the founder of the mass-produced carriage clock industry.
He apprenticed under the great Antide Janvier (1751-1835) and set up his own business in Rue Taitbout in 1825.
In the Paris 1838 Exhibition he exhibited a table regulator similar to the present example, an engraving of which was published in the exhibition brochure and reproduced again by Charles Allix Esq, Paul Garnier Revisited, Antiquarian Horology, Spring, 1993, p. 418, fig. 8. In the same article is also illustrated a very similar pendulum to the example in the present lot; described as patented in 1819 by Franz Joseph Mahler (1795-1845).
A very similar clock by Garnier was sold; Sotheby's, London, 2 June, 1995, lot 387

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