DENT, 61 STRAND AND 34 ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, CLOCKMAKER TO THE QUEEN, NO. 1344. CIRCA 1852

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A Victorian mahogany wall regulator with Denison's gravity escapement
Dent, 61 Strand and 34 Royal Exchange, London, Clockmaker to the Queen, No. 1344. Circa 1852
The 15 in. diameter silvered regulator dial signed Dent, 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange, London. Clock Maker to the Queen. 1344 and engraved on the bezel DENISON'S GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT, all hands of blued steel, the hour and seconds rings reversed and with cut-out in the seconds showing the escapement and fly wheel, the movement with four robust pillars and rectangular brass plates, the wheels with club teeth, Harrison's maintaining power, out-size great wheel, caged pinions, three-legged gravity escapement with steel pallets and brass arms, the pendulum of steel and zinc form with large rhomboid bob with milled and notched rating nut, large black painted lead weight with recess for the large brass pulley, the pendulum and movement suspended from a massive black painted iron back board, the mahogany case with windows and brass handles to the sides, the front with arched rectangular lenticle beneath the dial glass set with Dent's shuttered winding aperture
57¼ in. (145 cm.) high

来源

Mr Hans Staeger, sold these rooms, 10 June 1998, lot 30.

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拍品专文

The presence of the inscription on the dial bezel leads one to consider whether this was perhaps a prototype wall regulator for Denison's three-legged gravity escapement. One of his very earliest drawings on the gravity escapement is dated December 1846 but his original drawing of the escapement for the Westminster Great Clock, (Vaudrey Mercer, Edward John Dent, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 1977, pl. 72) is actually dated on the drawing 27 November 1852. This has to be very close to the date of manufacture of the present clock