A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE REGULATOR

WILLIAM DUTTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1775

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING LONGCASE REGULATOR
william dutton, london, circa 1775
The shallow-arched silvered engraved dial signed William Dutton, London above the engraved regulator dial with finely sculpted blued steel hands for the outer minute ring and upper seconds ring, shaped aperture for the hours with central winding hole and calendar aperture below, the massive movement with shouldered plates, and five baluster pillars latched at the front plate, the end-capped wheel train with six crossings, maintaining power, later? deadbeat escapement with adjustable steel pallets, the massive gridiron pendulum suspended from a massively constructed A-frame, the brass-faced pendulum bob with silvered calibrated rating nut swinging against a calibrated engraved silvered beat-scale, the well proportioned case with raised rectangular panel to the double-footed plinth, rectangular trunk door, reeded stop-champfered angles to the hood flanking the ogee-moulded dial door, the shallow-arched top applied with three rectangular moulded pads
6ft. 2in. (188cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar regulator by Matthew Dutton was sold Sotheby's, London, March 7, 1996, Lot 325 for £73,000
Another, signed Thos Mudge and William Dutton, was sold Phillips, London, June 11, 1996, Lot 280 for £48,000
William Dutton Bc. 1720-1794 was apprentice (1738-1746) to the great MAster George Graham d.1751. Very soon afterwards in 1755 Dutton went into partnership with another great Master, Thomas Mudge 1715-1794. Together they produced some of the most elegant and technically advanced clocks of the period. The partnership ended in 1771 and the present regulator was probably made circa 1775, or certainly before he took on his son, Matthew, in 1779.

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