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June 4, 12:10 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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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.
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