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A Louis XVI mahogany and ormolu-mounted month-going quarter striking and repeating longcase regulator
JAQUET DROZ, CIRCA 1780
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A Louis XVI mahogany and ormolu-mounted month-going quarter striking and repeating longcase regulator
Jaquet Droz, circa 1780
The case with dentil stepped top, foliate cast egg-and-dart ormolu banding to the trunk door and pedestal on simple skirted foot, convex glazed rope-twist and trellis-cast ormolu bezel to the large convex white enamel Roman and Arabic dial signed Jaquet Droz within the concentric calendar ring with blued serpentine arrowhead hand, elaborately pierced and chased ormolu hour and minute hands, finely pierced and counterpoised sweep centre seconds hand, the movement with large rectangular plates and four robust back-pinned pillars, the weight-driven going train with pin wheel escapement and grid-iron pendulum spring-suspended from the massive brass backboard bracket, going barrel for the quarter strike train with large brass quarter snail and steel rack work planted on the back-plate with vertically positioned faceted steel arbors striking on two bells above, pull quarter repeat on three bells via three hammers, the back-plate engraved Jaquet Droz ala Chaux de Fond
6 ft. 9 in. (206 cm.) high
Jaquet Droz, circa 1780
The case with dentil stepped top, foliate cast egg-and-dart ormolu banding to the trunk door and pedestal on simple skirted foot, convex glazed rope-twist and trellis-cast ormolu bezel to the large convex white enamel Roman and Arabic dial signed Jaquet Droz within the concentric calendar ring with blued serpentine arrowhead hand, elaborately pierced and chased ormolu hour and minute hands, finely pierced and counterpoised sweep centre seconds hand, the movement with large rectangular plates and four robust back-pinned pillars, the weight-driven going train with pin wheel escapement and grid-iron pendulum spring-suspended from the massive brass backboard bracket, going barrel for the quarter strike train with large brass quarter snail and steel rack work planted on the back-plate with vertically positioned faceted steel arbors striking on two bells above, pull quarter repeat on three bells via three hammers, the back-plate engraved Jaquet Droz ala Chaux de Fond
6 ft. 9 in. (206 cm.) high