Lot Essay
Lehrner, Franz, Vienna, 1800-1846. Recorded by Frederick Kaltenbock in Viennese Timepieces, Nicolaus Gunther 1993.
FRANZ LEHRNER, CIRCA 1820
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A BIEDERMEIER BOXWOOD-INLAID WALNUT YEAR-GOING LONGCASE REGULATOR
franz lehrner, circa 1820
The white enamel Roman dial within a fine ormolu bezzel cast with a trellis and rope-twist design, finely sculpted counterpoised blued steel hands, the slightly recessed white enamel dial centre with a rope-twist ormolu border and having subsidiary seconds ring and signed Lehrner within a foliate cartouche, the movement with narrow rectangular plates having four pillars and delicate end-capped wheel train with six crossings, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with fine adjustment to the crutchpiece for the grid-iron pendulum with five brass and steel rods spring-suspended from a steel bracket secured to the backboard, massive brass-cased weight, the case with large rectangular glazed panel to the stepped top, two-part glazed panels to the sides and front door with twin-key lock system with foliate escutcheons, the plinth base on a simple moulded skirt with Gothic style boxwood inlay
84in. (213cm.) high
franz lehrner, circa 1820
The white enamel Roman dial within a fine ormolu bezzel cast with a trellis and rope-twist design, finely sculpted counterpoised blued steel hands, the slightly recessed white enamel dial centre with a rope-twist ormolu border and having subsidiary seconds ring and signed Lehrner within a foliate cartouche, the movement with narrow rectangular plates having four pillars and delicate end-capped wheel train with six crossings, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with fine adjustment to the crutchpiece for the grid-iron pendulum with five brass and steel rods spring-suspended from a steel bracket secured to the backboard, massive brass-cased weight, the case with large rectangular glazed panel to the stepped top, two-part glazed panels to the sides and front door with twin-key lock system with foliate escutcheons, the plinth base on a simple moulded skirt with Gothic style boxwood inlay
84in. (213cm.) high