111st Auction

2024/11/16

Lot 88

Uhrenfabrik Lorenz Furtwängler Söhne

A precision regulator with regulator dial and Riefler pendulum No. 3025, DRP 100870

Sold

estimated
3.2004.500 €
Price realized
5.700 €
specific features
Case
Mahogany, glazed on three sides.
Dial
Silvered regulator dial, Roman hours at "6", Arabic seconds at "12", blued hands.
Movement
Trapezoid-shaped brass movement, Graham escapement with adjustable steel pallets with inlaid sapphires, invar steel pendulum "type K", pendulum spring suspension.
Diam.1410 x 395 x 187 mm
Circa1933
Ctry.Germany


Lorenz Furtwängler established his clock factory in Furtwangen in 1836; after 1868 the company traded as "Lorenz Furtwängler Söhne" - his sons Theophil, Hektor, Oskar and Adolf were also clockmakers. A limited company from 1900 on, Furtwängler advertised as makers of house and parlour clocks as well as table and wall clocks. They were known as makers of high-value clocks, which the quality movement as well as the Riefler pendulum of this clock are testament to; the pendulum comes with its original extra weights in a Riefler box. That this type of precision pendulum clock was not a one-off piece is shown by the Riefler sales records dating from May 20, 1919: Three of the high-quality pendulums of type "K" were sold together (pendulum no. 2212) and sent from Nesselwang to the Black Forest.