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
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
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