Important Watches, Pocket Watches and...

Noga Hilton Hotel, Nov 13, 2005

LOT 172

?Modified Dent Crank Lever Escapement? Honoré Pons, Paris, No. 180, circa 1830. Fine and very rare, mahogany and pearwood inlaid, eight-day going, hour and half-hour striking and repeating traveling clock with alarm, rotating subsidiary seconds, date and alarm apertures and special escapement with visible balance.

C. Square mahogany, pearwood stringing, gilt bronze bezel, hinged carrying handle, bun feet, detachable back door. D. Silvered brass chapter ring, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, inner seconds track on a rotating five-arm silvered dial, curved gilt brass bridge, apertures at 9 for alarm setting with Roman numerals, date aperture at 3 with Arabic numerals. Blued steel "moon" hands. M. 88 mm, circular, gilt brass, cylindrical pillars, going and striking train barrels, alarm barrel mounted on the backplate, modified Dent crank lever escapement driven by a pivoted brass roller rotating within an irregular double-fan shaped aperture in the upper end of the lever, the center of the lever circling the hand arbors, the lower end engaging with a pivoted brass roller mounted on the balance staff, balance wheel pivots jeweled, 3-arm gilt balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, striking and repeating on a bell. Movement signed and numbered. Dim. 13,5 x 12.5 x 8 cm.