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Auction archive: Lot number 231

AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRON...

Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$77,940 - US$124,704
Price realised:
£145,250
ca. US$226,417
Auction archive: Lot number 231

AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRON...

Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$77,940 - US$124,704
Price realised:
£145,250
ca. US$226,417
Beschreibung:

AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRONOMICAL SKELETON CLOCK WITH ORERRY PAUL POUVILLON, NOGENT-SUR-OISE
1930 (STARTED) - 1939 (COMPLETED)
AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRONOMICAL SKELETON CLOCK WITH ORERRY PAUL POUVILLON, NOGENT-SUR-OISE 1930 (started) - 1939 (completed) CASE: glazed brass case with door to front and on stepped and moulded ebonised plinth, also with door to front and with panelled sides, its top with a plaque engraved 'POUVILLON/NOGENT SUR OISE' FRONT DIALS: main chapter ring showing mean solar time for the meridians of London and Paris, with actual local time and sweep seconds; a Houdin type 'mystery' dial above showing solar time ('Temps Vrai'); a leap year indication dial behind LEFT SIDE DIALS: three dials showing month of year, season of year and zodiacal month; skeletonised ring below showing time of sunrise and sunset with the sun's elevation, the length of day and the length of night indicated on subsidiary rings; a group of dials below forming an 'Eccesiastical computer' and showing the Dominical letter, the Epact, the Golden number, the Solar cycle, the day of the week for the next 1 January and the date of Easter RIGHT SIDE DIALS: three dials showing unequal hours, the day of the week and the day's planet; above a lunar dial, its hand set with a painted bone moon revolving to indicate its visible phases, the outer ring calibrated to show its age; a planisphere below with revolving plexiglass centre painted to show the principal constellations of the northern hemisphere at approximately 49 degrees, within a ring showing the sidereal day ORRERY: incorporating an annual calendar ring with the signs of the zodiac, steel pointers indicating the stages of Easter, the Earth with coloured paper gores and revolving on its own tilted axis (painted moon with day and night now lacking) and with gilt-metal sun; with gearing for all the planets (the planetary mounts now lacking) MOVEMENT: raised on two substantia tapering steel columns, the substantial lead weights with integral pulleys housed in the plinth, with Graham-type pallets for dead beat pinwheel escapement, countwheel strike on pendulum; fine regulation for the wood-rod pendulum with substantial gilt-steel bob 58 in. (147 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Auction archive: Lot number 231
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
9 December 2010, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRONOMICAL SKELETON CLOCK WITH ORERRY PAUL POUVILLON, NOGENT-SUR-OISE
1930 (STARTED) - 1939 (COMPLETED)
AN EXEPTIONAL FRENCH HIGHLY COMPLICATED WEIGHT-DRIVEN ASTRONOMICAL SKELETON CLOCK WITH ORERRY PAUL POUVILLON, NOGENT-SUR-OISE 1930 (started) - 1939 (completed) CASE: glazed brass case with door to front and on stepped and moulded ebonised plinth, also with door to front and with panelled sides, its top with a plaque engraved 'POUVILLON/NOGENT SUR OISE' FRONT DIALS: main chapter ring showing mean solar time for the meridians of London and Paris, with actual local time and sweep seconds; a Houdin type 'mystery' dial above showing solar time ('Temps Vrai'); a leap year indication dial behind LEFT SIDE DIALS: three dials showing month of year, season of year and zodiacal month; skeletonised ring below showing time of sunrise and sunset with the sun's elevation, the length of day and the length of night indicated on subsidiary rings; a group of dials below forming an 'Eccesiastical computer' and showing the Dominical letter, the Epact, the Golden number, the Solar cycle, the day of the week for the next 1 January and the date of Easter RIGHT SIDE DIALS: three dials showing unequal hours, the day of the week and the day's planet; above a lunar dial, its hand set with a painted bone moon revolving to indicate its visible phases, the outer ring calibrated to show its age; a planisphere below with revolving plexiglass centre painted to show the principal constellations of the northern hemisphere at approximately 49 degrees, within a ring showing the sidereal day ORRERY: incorporating an annual calendar ring with the signs of the zodiac, steel pointers indicating the stages of Easter, the Earth with coloured paper gores and revolving on its own tilted axis (painted moon with day and night now lacking) and with gilt-metal sun; with gearing for all the planets (the planetary mounts now lacking) MOVEMENT: raised on two substantia tapering steel columns, the substantial lead weights with integral pulleys housed in the plinth, with Graham-type pallets for dead beat pinwheel escapement, countwheel strike on pendulum; fine regulation for the wood-rod pendulum with substantial gilt-steel bob 58 in. (147 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Auction archive: Lot number 231
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
9 December 2010, London, King Street
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