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FOUR ENLARGED EARLY 19TH CENTURY EXHIBITION ESCAPEMENT MODELS
Moulinié, Geneva
each model displays the parts comprising the named escapement, plus its own going barrel with stop-work providing the motive power, the frames are of silvered frosted brass, pivot holes are not jewelled, they are each now mounted in a perspex drum with brass bowl ring securing them to a rectangular mahogany display board with perspex cover with one brass plaque inscribed MOULINE (sic) - GENEVA CIRCA 1820, and the other GIL MARGOLIS COLLECTION
EARNSHAW CHRONOMETER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ, beneath a silvered plate inscribed ECHAPPT A RESSORT, the movement numbered 29351, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, skeletonised steel inpulse roller, steel discharging roller with jewelled pallet, browned steel helical balance spring, pivoted polished stell detent with jewelled locking stone, eccentric banking pin, fifteen tooth brass escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
DULPLEX ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ, beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPPT DUPLEX, the movement numbered 29350, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, steel duplex passing roller, steel impulse pallet, fifteen tooth brass duplex, escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
LEVER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPT A ANCRE, the movement numbered 29349, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, polished steel double roller with triangular impulse jewel, steel counterpoised lever with brass dart and jewelled entry and exit pallets, fifteen tooth steel escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPT A CYLINDER, undersprung uncut brass balance rim with three steel arms, flat blued steel balance spring, polished steel cylinder with steel pivots in brass plugs, twelve tooth brass cylinder escape wheel engraved in the top plate concentric with the cylinder is engraved a 'degrees scale' divided 20-0-20 used for illustrating the locking and unlocking amplitude of the balance, a small datum pin being set in the balance rim, the movement is not numbered
83mm. movement diam.
Moulinié, Geneva
each model displays the parts comprising the named escapement, plus its own going barrel with stop-work providing the motive power, the frames are of silvered frosted brass, pivot holes are not jewelled, they are each now mounted in a perspex drum with brass bowl ring securing them to a rectangular mahogany display board with perspex cover with one brass plaque inscribed MOULINE (sic) - GENEVA CIRCA 1820, and the other GIL MARGOLIS COLLECTION
EARNSHAW CHRONOMETER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ, beneath a silvered plate inscribed ECHAPPT A RESSORT, the movement numbered 29351, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, skeletonised steel inpulse roller, steel discharging roller with jewelled pallet, browned steel helical balance spring, pivoted polished stell detent with jewelled locking stone, eccentric banking pin, fifteen tooth brass escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
DULPLEX ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ, beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPPT DUPLEX, the movement numbered 29350, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, steel duplex passing roller, steel impulse pallet, fifteen tooth brass duplex, escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
LEVER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPT A ANCRE, the movement numbered 29349, undersprung three-armed uncut brass balance, polished steel double roller with triangular impulse jewel, steel counterpoised lever with brass dart and jewelled entry and exit pallets, fifteen tooth steel escape wheel
100mm. movement diam.
CYLINDER ESCAPEMENT, signed on the top plate MOULINIÉ beneath an applied silver plate inscribed ECHAPT A CYLINDER, undersprung uncut brass balance rim with three steel arms, flat blued steel balance spring, polished steel cylinder with steel pivots in brass plugs, twelve tooth brass cylinder escape wheel engraved in the top plate concentric with the cylinder is engraved a 'degrees scale' divided 20-0-20 used for illustrating the locking and unlocking amplitude of the balance, a small datum pin being set in the balance rim, the movement is not numbered
83mm. movement diam.