DENT, LONDON. NO. 1274; CIRCA 1851
Details
A Victorian walnut double-dial table regulator
Dent, London. No. 1274; circa 1851
The case of rectangular design with detachable viewing portal to the top, glazed brass dial bezels to the front and back, the moulded base on slender bracket feet, the 12¼ in. diam. silvered regulator dials both signed Dent, London. Clock Maker to the Queen. 1274, all hands of blued steel, the four pillar single chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power, large escapement platform with blued steel helical spring to large diameter cut bimetallic compensated balance with underslung Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, the dials receiving indirect drive from motion work on both plates, the walnut hood probably later
17¼ ins. (45 cm) high
Dent, London. No. 1274; circa 1851
The case of rectangular design with detachable viewing portal to the top, glazed brass dial bezels to the front and back, the moulded base on slender bracket feet, the 12¼ in. diam. silvered regulator dials both signed Dent, London. Clock Maker to the Queen. 1274, all hands of blued steel, the four pillar single chain fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power, large escapement platform with blued steel helical spring to large diameter cut bimetallic compensated balance with underslung Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement, the dials receiving indirect drive from motion work on both plates, the walnut hood probably later
17¼ ins. (45 cm) high
Provenance
The Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Sold Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1988, lot 71
Sold Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1988, lot 71
Literature
Hans Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham 1763-1862, Stuttgart, 1987, pp. 831-2, fig. 1+2