103rd Auction
2020/11/7
Lot 144
Nicolas-Mathieu Rieus(s)ec, Horloger du Roi, Height 640 mm, circa 1840
A technically highly interesting mantel clock with half hour/hour strike, date indication, moon age, moon phase and remontoir
Case: brass, gilt, silvered, the angles decorated with Corinthian columns. Dial: silvered, signed. Movm.: circular brass full plate movement, going barrel, 1 hammer / 1 bell, pin wheel escapement, 9-rod grid-iron pendulum, compensation device in the pendulum bob, knife edge suspension.
Even with the extremely elaborate decoration of the base and the roof, the aesthetics of this portal clock focusses on the technical features; silvered column shafts and applied ornamentation on a silvered background present a cool, very level-headed overall picture, with a dial that does not have the usual enamel face but is silvered and enclosed by a glazed bezel that opens/closes with a bayonet catch. The opening for the moon phase also reveals the movement and the remontoire, which is released and rewound approximately every 10 seconds. The lever of the remontoire with the adjustable weights is visible from the back. The window on the front also shows the escapement wheel of the single-arm escapement "Rehfuß" (deer foot) as described in Wolf Brüggemann's book about escapements, Vol. 2, p. 143. The pendulum bob features an instricate temperature compensation with a thermometer; the mechanism is protected by a glass cover. The condition of the case, the dial and the movement is excellent.
Nicolas-Mathieu Rieussec was born in 1781 in Toulouse and established his own business around 1802 in Paris. Later he worked with his s Joseph-Ferdinand, who was born in 1804. Rieussec was the first to obtain a patent on one of the so-called inking chronographs; the dial revolved underneath a fixed arm with the ink hand and allowed time segments to be documented. In 1823 Fatton improved the mechanism for Breguet by rotating the ink hand, so that the dial could remain stationary as usual.
A technically highly interesting mantel clock with half hour/hour strike, date indication, moon age, moon phase and remontoir
Case: brass, gilt, silvered, the angles decorated with Corinthian columns. Dial: silvered, signed. Movm.: circular brass full plate movement, going barrel, 1 hammer / 1 bell, pin wheel escapement, 9-rod grid-iron pendulum, compensation device in the pendulum bob, knife edge suspension.
Even with the extremely elaborate decoration of the base and the roof, the aesthetics of this portal clock focusses on the technical features; silvered column shafts and applied ornamentation on a silvered background present a cool, very level-headed overall picture, with a dial that does not have the usual enamel face but is silvered and enclosed by a glazed bezel that opens/closes with a bayonet catch. The opening for the moon phase also reveals the movement and the remontoire, which is released and rewound approximately every 10 seconds. The lever of the remontoire with the adjustable weights is visible from the back. The window on the front also shows the escapement wheel of the single-arm escapement "Rehfuß" (deer foot) as described in Wolf Brüggemann's book about escapements, Vol. 2, p. 143. The pendulum bob features an instricate temperature compensation with a thermometer; the mechanism is protected by a glass cover. The condition of the case, the dial and the movement is excellent.
Nicolas-Mathieu Rieussec was born in 1781 in Toulouse and established his own business around 1802 in Paris. Later he worked with his s Joseph-Ferdinand, who was born in 1804. Rieussec was the first to obtain a patent on one of the so-called inking chronographs; the dial revolved underneath a fixed arm with the ink hand and allowed time segments to be documented. In 1823 Fatton improved the mechanism for Breguet by rotating the ink hand, so that the dial could remain stationary as usual.
estimated
16.000—25.000 €
Price realized
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