A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY WALL REGULATOR WITH GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT

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THE DIVERSITY OF TIMEKEEPING For centuries clocks have been made whose purpose is not merely to tell the time but to decorate, amuse, mystify and engage the spectator, and above all to demonstrate the ingenuity of the clockmaker. As the clocks in this sale show the imagination of the clockmaker produced extraordinary variety. From the grand opulence of the Victorian longcase clock with its pendulum defining the seconds and resonating the hours and quarters on tubular bells; to the delicate French porcelain-mounted carriage clock designed to carry time from place to place. From the novelty steam boiler clock celebrating the industrial revolution in which timekeepers played a pivotal role; to the delicate champleve mantel clock which only requires winding once a year. And finally the mantel chronometer representing the evolution of precision timekeeping that made world exploration possible.

A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY WALL REGULATOR WITH GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT

DENT, LONDON, NO. 1299. MID-19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY WALL REGULATOR WITH GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT
DENT, LONDON, NO. 1299. MID-19TH CENTURY
The 12 in. diameter regulator dial with with cut-out showing the escapement with fly wheel, signed 'DENT LONDON/1299' and engraved 'E. B. DENISON'S GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT' to the bezel; blued steel hands, movement with Harrison's maintaining power, single four-legged gravity escapement to back plate, passing hour strike on bell; steel jar pendulum (mercury removed), brass weight
59 in. (150 cm.) high

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