Lewis Walduck
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Lot 64TP
A good 19th century mahogany regulator William Baker, Long Acre
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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A good 19th century mahogany regulator
William Baker, Long Acre
The drumhead case with out swept throat mouldings, over a glazed door revealing the mercury pendulum and beat scale, on a bombe shaped base. The 12-inch signed silvered dial with outer minute track framing the large subsidiary dials for running seconds with counterpoised hand, and Roman hours with spade hand within an angled sight ring. The substantial 10" x 7" weight driven movement with thick plates united by six robust pillars, with maintaining power, high count pinions and wheels of six crossings terminating in a deadbeat escapement, with jewelled endstops and large jewelled pallets set in a double frame, the long crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against a beat-scale, driven by a small brass-clad weight suspended on a six-spoke pulley. Together with a crank winding key and door key. 187cms (6ft 2ins) high.
The drumhead case with out swept throat mouldings, over a glazed door revealing the mercury pendulum and beat scale, on a bombe shaped base. The 12-inch signed silvered dial with outer minute track framing the large subsidiary dials for running seconds with counterpoised hand, and Roman hours with spade hand within an angled sight ring. The substantial 10" x 7" weight driven movement with thick plates united by six robust pillars, with maintaining power, high count pinions and wheels of six crossings terminating in a deadbeat escapement, with jewelled endstops and large jewelled pallets set in a double frame, the long crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against a beat-scale, driven by a small brass-clad weight suspended on a six-spoke pulley. Together with a crank winding key and door key. 187cms (6ft 2ins) high.
Footnotes
William Baker, noted in Brian Loomes' Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World (page 35), was active between 1821 and 1857.
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