L'HEURE ELECTRIQUE PARIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH MAHOGANY ELECTRIC WALL REGULATOR
L'Heure Electrique Paris, late 19th Century
The rectangular case with simple moulded cornices, arched glazed door to the circular white enamel Roman and Arabic 24-hour dial signed L'Heure Electrique Paris, black painted Roman chapters and inner concentric red painted Arabic chapters (13 to 24), blued spade hands, the movement with jewelled thirty-toothed 'scape wheel with five crossings running on a similarly jewelled counterpoised pawl and with small circular white enamel seconds ring with counterpoised blued steel hand, the 'scape wheel set with a single double-headed steel pin which on every single revolution closes two sets of contacts, the first activating the electromagnet on the left side giving impulse to the pendulum; the second advancing the motion work behind the dial one minute; the pendulum with invar rod and brass-covered lead bob with rating nut below; sold with small transformer
61 in. (155 cm.) high
L'Heure Electrique Paris, late 19th Century
The rectangular case with simple moulded cornices, arched glazed door to the circular white enamel Roman and Arabic 24-hour dial signed L'Heure Electrique Paris, black painted Roman chapters and inner concentric red painted Arabic chapters (13 to 24), blued spade hands, the movement with jewelled thirty-toothed 'scape wheel with five crossings running on a similarly jewelled counterpoised pawl and with small circular white enamel seconds ring with counterpoised blued steel hand, the 'scape wheel set with a single double-headed steel pin which on every single revolution closes two sets of contacts, the first activating the electromagnet on the left side giving impulse to the pendulum; the second advancing the motion work behind the dial one minute; the pendulum with invar rod and brass-covered lead bob with rating nut below; sold with small transformer
61 in. (155 cm.) high