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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 14, 1993

LOT 123

Lepaute à Paris, circa 1798. Rare and very fine mahogany 15 day going, hour and quarter-striking longcase regulator with centre-seconds, equation of time, Gregorian and Republican calendar.

CHF 160,000 - 180,000

C. With three glazed panels and applied gilt bronze ornaments. D. White enamel by Dubuisson, with Breguet numerals, inner days of the week, apertures below "12" for the annual calendar with the Revolutionary months, above " 6" for the annual calendar and the Gregorian months. Chased gilt brass hands, counterpoised blued-steel centre-seconds hand and polished steel mean time hand. M. Weight driven with single endless rope driving both the going and the striking train, pin wheel Lepaute anchor escapement,seconds beating grid-iron pendulum with thermometer. Spring blade suspension. Equation cam, Gregorian and Republican calendar rings behind the dial visible through an aperture. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dim. 213x50x28cm.


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Regulators with Republican calendar are very rare, even more so when they show the Gregorian calendar as well, together with the equation of time. Another very unusual and rare feature of this regulator is to strike the quarter with a single endless rope, driving both the going and the striking trains. Dubuisson was with Cotteau the best enameller of the end of the XVIIIth century, he worked for Robert Robin, Breguet, Louis Berthoud