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Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 256

Dent, Clock Maker to the Queen, London, No. 1274, circa 1850. Very fine and rare, Burr Wallnut double dial table chronometer regulator.

USD 8,000 - 10,000

EUR 6,500 - 8,000

Sold: USD 17,825

C. Rectangular with detachable viewing portal on the top, glazed brass dial bezels on both sides, molded base on small bracket feet. D. Silvered, regulator style with Roman hour chapter at the lower part, center minutes with 5-minute Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds dial at the top. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Rectangular brass, fusée with Harrison?s maintaining power and chain, large escapement platform with Earnshaw-type spring detent chronometer escapement, free-sprung blued steel helical balance-spring.Dials signed.Dim. 43 cm. x 36 cm. x 21 cm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

The clock is one of two known double dial table regulators Dent made after the dissolution of the Arnold & Dent partnership in 1840, when he moved from 84 Strand to 82 Strand. Literature: Hans Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham 1763 ? 1862, Stuttgart, 1987, pp. 831-2, fig. 1 and 2. Provenance: The Time Museum, Rockford, Ill.