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Derek Roberts, "Continental and American Skeleton Clocks", 1989.
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A Louis XVI skeletonised table regulator of two weeks duration, Paris, date circa 1780
Gilt bronze mounted brass
Height 40.5 cm (with base)
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Literature
Derek Roberts, "Continental and American Skeleton Clocks", 1989, p. 127, pl. 120a, illustrating this clock.
A very fine Louis XVI gilt bronze mounted brass skeletonised table regulator of two weeks duration
Paris, date circa 1780
Height 40.5 cm (with base)
It chimes the quarter on two bells and strikes the hours on a third bell, mounted at the bottom of the backplate. It has a dead beat escapement with the anchor spanning half the great wheel, a gridiron pendulum, centre sweep seconds and date hands and a remontoire which rewinds the driving weight
every 30 seconds.