calendar clock;
equation clock;
long-case clock;
month-going clock;
regulator
- Museum number
- 1958,1006.2164
- Description
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Long-case regulator; month-duration precision timepiece; dial with gilt secondary minute hand showing true solar time; disc in arch calibrated with perpetual calendar and equation of time indication; movement with dead-beat escapement, gridiron temperature-compensated pendulum and 'bolt-and-shutter' maintaining power.
TRAIN-COUNT.
Gt wheel 96
2nd wheel 96/16
Centre wheel 96/12
4th wheel 80/12
Escape wheel 30/10
Motion work.
Canon pinion 64
Minute wheel 64
Minute pinion 10
Hour wheel 120
Date pinion on hour wheel 48
Pin wheel indexing 6-star whl 96
Co-axial 6-star & contrate whl 48
Worm pinion 6 (single start)
Date ring 487
- Production date
- 1760-1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Compare with 1958,1006.2132
- Location
- On display (G39/od)
- Condition
- Latest: 1 (Nov 1996).
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- The Ilbert Collection of clocks, prints and other related material was destined to be sold at Christie's auction house on 6th-7th November 1958. As a result of the generous donation of funds by Gilbert Edgar CBE the sale was cancelled and the material purchased privately from the beneficiaries of the Ilbert Estate.
Ilbert's watches were then acquired with further funds from Gilbert Edgar CBE, public donations and government funds. These were then registered in the series 1958,1201.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1006.2164
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2164 (Ilbert Collection)
