Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 5

"Equation of Time" Raingo Père, Hr. du Roi a Paris. Made circa 1850. Very fine and very rare, large, early, eight day going, quarter-striking carriage clock with equation of time and annual calendar indications.

C. Gilt brass, rectangular, the sides and top glazed, hinged front and rear doors. D. Silvered, rectangular with radial Roman chapter ring, outer minute track, skeletonized subsidiary dials below for the equation of time inscribed "Difference Du Temps Vrai, Soleil Retard/Soleil Avance", calendar dial inscribed with the months and their respective number of days. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Rectangular brass with 4 massive cylindrical steel pillars secured by 4 screws, going barrels for the going and striking trains, large counterpoised steel lateral lever escapement mounted directly onto the back plate, 13-toothed escape wheel, plain 3-arm steel balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters with 2 hammers on an under-slung bell in the base, the hammers mounted on out-set vertical blued steel rods activated by cams driven by the striking train. Dim. 160 x 100 x 93 mm.