98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 492
Verneuil à Paris, Height 690 mm, circa 1815
An ornamental precision table regulator with half hour / hour strike, annual calendar and equation
Case: brass, marble base. Dial: enamel chapter rings, firegilt bezel, central sun hand for equation of time. Movm.: brass, 2 weights, 1 hammer / 1 bell, heavy compensation grid-iron pendulum with knife edge suspension, brass pendulum bob with adjusing nut, pin wheel escapement.
Verneuil is known as an outstanding clockmaker and worked in Paris at Rue du Contrat Social around 1806; around 1815 he he worked at Rue Faubourg Saint Martin. He was most famous for his precision table regulators with half seconds’ pendulum such as this one. The quality of Verneuil’s work is extraordinary.
An ornamental precision table regulator with half hour / hour strike, annual calendar and equation
Case: brass, marble base. Dial: enamel chapter rings, firegilt bezel, central sun hand for equation of time. Movm.: brass, 2 weights, 1 hammer / 1 bell, heavy compensation grid-iron pendulum with knife edge suspension, brass pendulum bob with adjusing nut, pin wheel escapement.
Verneuil is known as an outstanding clockmaker and worked in Paris at Rue du Contrat Social around 1806; around 1815 he he worked at Rue Faubourg Saint Martin. He was most famous for his precision table regulators with half seconds’ pendulum such as this one. The quality of Verneuil’s work is extraordinary.
Sold
estimated
40.000—50.000 €
Price realized
30.000 €