AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH EQUATION OF TIME AND YEAR CALENDAR
HENRY AND JEAN-JOSEPH LEPAUTE, PARIS. DATED 18/06 + 7
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH EQUATION OF TIME AND YEAR CALENDAR HENRY AND JEAN-JOSEPH LEPAUTE, PARIS. DATED 18/06 + 7 CASE: moulded top with dentilled entablature, with beaded and rosette ormolu mounts, similar ormolu beading to the sides, front and rear doors with hidden pin-hole spring catches, dial surround with ormolu dapery and foliate spandrels, base with egg-and-dart moulding, ormolu block feet DIAL: white enamel, signed 'H. Lepaute à Paris', with aperture for revolving white enamel year calendar ring inscribed with the months, their days and signs, pierced and engraved ormolu solar hour and minute hands, polished steel mean minute hand, blued steel centre seconds MOVEMENT: twin barrels, pinwheel escapement to back plate signed 'H. & J.J. Lepaute à Paris. 18/06 + 7', fine beat adjustment to crutchpiece, countwheel strike on bell; fine gridiron pendulum, its reverse with ormolu circular fine adjustment weight, its front with ormolu temperature scale with blued steel pointer 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH EQUATION OF TIME AND YEAR CALENDAR
HENRY AND JEAN-JOSEPH LEPAUTE, PARIS. DATED 18/06 + 7
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH EQUATION OF TIME AND YEAR CALENDAR HENRY AND JEAN-JOSEPH LEPAUTE, PARIS. DATED 18/06 + 7 CASE: moulded top with dentilled entablature, with beaded and rosette ormolu mounts, similar ormolu beading to the sides, front and rear doors with hidden pin-hole spring catches, dial surround with ormolu dapery and foliate spandrels, base with egg-and-dart moulding, ormolu block feet DIAL: white enamel, signed 'H. Lepaute à Paris', with aperture for revolving white enamel year calendar ring inscribed with the months, their days and signs, pierced and engraved ormolu solar hour and minute hands, polished steel mean minute hand, blued steel centre seconds MOVEMENT: twin barrels, pinwheel escapement to back plate signed 'H. & J.J. Lepaute à Paris. 18/06 + 7', fine beat adjustment to crutchpiece, countwheel strike on bell; fine gridiron pendulum, its reverse with ormolu circular fine adjustment weight, its front with ormolu temperature scale with blued steel pointer 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (23 cm.) deep
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