A George III mahogany cross-banded architectural month-going longcase regulator Thomas Wright in Ye Poultry, London. Circa 1785 The case on small bracket feet supporting the plinth centred by a hollow-cornered panel, the trunk door with well carved fluted detached columns flanking the slender arched trunk door, similar bronze-capped detached columns flanking the forward sliding hood surmounted by a scroll cresting with well carved wood floral terminals, the breakarch silvered regulator dial signed WRIGHT , the chapter rings finely engraved and with delicated pierced blued steel hour and minute hands and counterpoised seconds hand, the movement with five front-pinned pillars, Graham-type deadbeat escapement, anti-friction roller arm to the crutch, the steel rod pendulum with Wright's patent compensated bob comprising a central brass covered lead bob with bimetallic strips above and below compensating for temperature error, high count wheel train with maintaining power, original well made oval brass-cased weight and brass pulley with six crossings 7 ft. ½ in. (215 cm.) high
A George III mahogany cross-banded architectural month-going longcase regulator Thomas Wright in Ye Poultry, London. Circa 1785 The case on small bracket feet supporting the plinth centred by a hollow-cornered panel, the trunk door with well carved fluted detached columns flanking the slender arched trunk door, similar bronze-capped detached columns flanking the forward sliding hood surmounted by a scroll cresting with well carved wood floral terminals, the breakarch silvered regulator dial signed WRIGHT , the chapter rings finely engraved and with delicated pierced blued steel hour and minute hands and counterpoised seconds hand, the movement with five front-pinned pillars, Graham-type deadbeat escapement, anti-friction roller arm to the crutch, the steel rod pendulum with Wright's patent compensated bob comprising a central brass covered lead bob with bimetallic strips above and below compensating for temperature error, high count wheel train with maintaining power, original well made oval brass-cased weight and brass pulley with six crossings 7 ft. ½ in. (215 cm.) high
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