Nr. 562 CUM
9-inch Comtoise CLOCK with VERGE ESCAPEMENT and FOLDED PENDULUM from the year 1846. Two-piece pressed brass decorative plate with flutist motif. Half- and full-hour strike on bell with repetition of the hour strike. Weight-driven striking release. The step lever of the large lever system forms a triangle, which occurs only on the earliest CLOCKS with weight-driven release. On this CLOCK, the axis of the large lever system is also not yet mounted in the plate, but in an inserted bridge. On the frame of this CLOCK, the holes necessary for the spring-pressure release of the large lever system’s axis are still present on the inner sides of the frame posts, as well as the small notch into which the small wedge securing the axis of the large lever mechanism was inserted. The holes required for mounting the large lever system into the inner sides of the frame posts could not be drilled afterward, so they were already drilled by the frame supplier.
The later version of the large lever system with weight-driven release forms a right angle with the step lever.
The earlier release operated by spring pressure.
Between 1845 and 1850, the striking release was changed from spring pressure to weight-driven release.
Enamel dial signed: Leopold Giraud à Lambert 1846.
Dial diameter: 215
Frame: 277 x 271 x 153 HxWxD
Movement: 420 x 274 x 180 HxWxD
Chimney: 50
Pendulum length: approx. 1200 (all measurements in mm)
