Lot Essay
Although signed B.C. Le Roy à Paris the composition of the present clock is more in keeping with those produced from the workshops of Verneuil & Nicol
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EMPIRE VIENED SIENNA MARBLE, BRASS AND ORMOLU MONTH-GOING ASTRONOMICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO VERNEUIL & NICOL
Details
AN EMPIRE VIENED SIENNA MARBLE, BRASS AND ORMOLU MONTH-GOING ASTRONOMICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
Attributed to Verneuil & Nicol
The white enamel Roman and Arabic annular dial with blued moon hands and enclosed within a foliate and rope-twist cast bezel, the guilloché gilt centre with white enamel subsidiary seconds ring, the white enamel year calendar ring below revolving against a fixed blued steel pointer, the movement with six back-pinned pillars and with rectangular shouldered plates, going train with pin-wheel escapement, knife-edge suspended compensated gridiron pendulum comprising a steel and brass bar on a pivotted lever giving automatic adjustment to the bob and with attached blued steel pointer indicating the degree of thermal compensation against a silvered scale, countwheel strike on bell on backplate, the purple-veined Sienna marble D-ended base with brass-lined recepticles for the descending weights
25¼ in. (64 cm.) high
Attributed to Verneuil & Nicol
The white enamel Roman and Arabic annular dial with blued moon hands and enclosed within a foliate and rope-twist cast bezel, the guilloché gilt centre with white enamel subsidiary seconds ring, the white enamel year calendar ring below revolving against a fixed blued steel pointer, the movement with six back-pinned pillars and with rectangular shouldered plates, going train with pin-wheel escapement, knife-edge suspended compensated gridiron pendulum comprising a steel and brass bar on a pivotted lever giving automatic adjustment to the bob and with attached blued steel pointer indicating the degree of thermal compensation against a silvered scale, countwheel strike on bell on backplate, the purple-veined Sienna marble D-ended base with brass-lined recepticles for the descending weights
25¼ in. (64 cm.) high
Literature
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton clocks, Schiffer, 1989, p. 49, figs. 36 i & ii