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Lot Essay
A Garnier regulator of related design (with standard dial format), No. 8539, sold anonymously, Christie's London, 14 June 2000, lot 58 (£17,625) and again, 2 July 2004, lot 121 (£14,340).
Paul Garnier (1801-1869) was apprenticed to Antide Janvier (1751-1835). He set up his own business in rue Taitbout in 1825 and made a major contribution to the creation of a French carriage clock industry.
In the 1838 Paris Exhibition he exhibited a table regulator similar to the present example, an engraving of which was published in the exhibition brochure (reproduced by C. Allix, 'Paul Garnier Revisited', Antiquarian Horology, Spring, 1993, p. 418, fig. 8.). the pendulum design was patented in 1819 by Franz Joseph Mahler (1795-1845). In 1839 Garnier sold a maximum-minimum thermometer to the Duke of Orléans and in 1844 he is known to have made a clock for Versailles (Allix, p. 423).
Paul Garnier (1801-1869) was apprenticed to Antide Janvier (1751-1835). He set up his own business in rue Taitbout in 1825 and made a major contribution to the creation of a French carriage clock industry.
In the 1838 Paris Exhibition he exhibited a table regulator similar to the present example, an engraving of which was published in the exhibition brochure (reproduced by C. Allix, 'Paul Garnier Revisited', Antiquarian Horology, Spring, 1993, p. 418, fig. 8.). the pendulum design was patented in 1819 by Franz Joseph Mahler (1795-1845). In 1839 Garnier sold a maximum-minimum thermometer to the Duke of Orléans and in 1844 he is known to have made a clock for Versailles (Allix, p. 423).