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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 178

M.F. Dent, 33 & 34 Cockspur St. Clockmaker to the Queen, No. 800, after 1862. Rare and unusual double movement regulator with overhead suspended pendulum, used as a window showpiece in Cockspur Street and Pall Mall.

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C. Square, mahogany with applied carved wood corner pieces and spandrels, carved and gilt beading to upper and lower returns of the bottom moulding and to mirrors set in each side. Glazed brass fame pyramidal top surmounted by a brass sphere finial and carrying the cylindrical brass pendulumsuspension mount. D. Silvered, regulator type, Roman hour numerals, marked with signature and " Mean time"; blued steel hands. M. Rectangular, spotted plate, 6 plain turned pillars, fusee with chain, dead-beat anchor escapement mounted in a Trame on the outside of the back plate, vertical Ushaped pendulum crutch mounted on top of the anchor arbor linking with the tip of the pendulum rod suspended above the movement from a mount at the top of the pyramidal case, cylindrical bob; silvered regulator dise with central setting knob on outside of the lower part of the back plate. Small silvered setting dial mounted on the back of the escapement cage. Dim. 230 x 43 x 42.4 cm.


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Note: As centre piece of their window displays at 82 Strand and in Cockspur Street and Pall Mail, the Dent company used first a regulator incorporating elements from their patent No. 8625 and with pendulum above the movement, and then the clock, also with overhead pendulum, described here. When in place, the clock carried and second dial driven by an eight-day chronometer movement visible from inside the shop. The clock was sold to an American customer after alterations to the lighting arrangement in the Pall Mail window made it impossible to reintegrate it into the display. Literature Vaudrey Mercer, The Life and Letters of Edward John Dent Chronometer Maker and some accourt of his Successors, London, 1977 and A Supplement to Edward John Dent,and his Successors, London, 1983, p. 847.