Lot Essay
This is a particularly well made and rare timepiece. Reclus also invented a patented a four tooth contact switch and he, like Mathaus Hipp (vide lot 415) favoured the 'minute jumpers'.
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RECLUS; THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
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A French early electric skeleton clock
Reclus; third quarter 19th century
The convex white enamel Roman dial signed Régulateur Électrique Bté. S.G.D.G., blued steel moon hands, the movement with rectangular brass plates with four back-pinned pillars with Reclus's stamp on the backplate and numbered 2015, the deadbeat escapement of Brocot type spring-suspended from the high quality steel-rod pendulum with brass bob, the power operating on a remontoir system tripped by a ratchet-and-pawl every minute with two jewelled pallets impulsed by a star wheel extending from the 'scape wheel providing the make/break contact system; with glass dome
See patent drawing
19¼ ins. 49 cm. high (over dome)
Reclus; third quarter 19th century
The convex white enamel Roman dial signed Régulateur Électrique Bté. S.G.D.G., blued steel moon hands, the movement with rectangular brass plates with four back-pinned pillars with Reclus's stamp on the backplate and numbered 2015, the deadbeat escapement of Brocot type spring-suspended from the high quality steel-rod pendulum with brass bob, the power operating on a remontoir system tripped by a ratchet-and-pawl every minute with two jewelled pallets impulsed by a star wheel extending from the 'scape wheel providing the make/break contact system; with glass dome
See patent drawing
19¼ ins. 49 cm. high (over dome)