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A Louis XVI month-going plum pudding mahogany régulateur de parquet with equation of time and annual calendar, Lépine, Paris, circa 1785

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Description

engraved silvered dial with solar and mean time hour hands and centre seconds, signed Lépine, Hr. Du Roi, gilt bezel, silvered calendar dial below for setting the equation of time, the equation kidney mounted behind the dial, the weight-driven movement concealed weight and with dead Graham's beat escapement mounted on the backplate, the separately suspended nine-rod grid-iron compensation pendulum with massive lenticular bob and oscillating against a silvered beat plaque, silvered thermometer, fine beat adjustment on the pendulum, the case with flat top above a boldly moulded dentil cornice, glazed trunk door and sides, the plinth on a moulded base


Haut. 208 cm, larg. 52 cm, prof. 32 cm ; Height 81 7/8, width 20 1/2 in, depth 12 2/3

Maurice Segoura, Paris, 1988

Jean-Antoine Lépine, clock maker, received master in 1765.