Beschreibung:

Aimé Jacob No.17: An important Louis Philippe mahogany six-month going longcase regulateur , the case in a Gothic taste with out-set ebonised base, the plinth centred with a recessed quatrafoil moulding, the trunk with arched glazed sides flanked by cluster columns with foliate carved capitals, the door with secret release-catch in the side and with trefoil molding to the arch top with rock crystal spandrels, pendant Gothic frieze to the stepped top, gilt moulded bezel to the 10 3/4in. diam. silvered dial signed Ame. Jacob with painted Roman chapters, power reserve sector above VI inscribed Marche 6 mois 0-6 , finely pierced and shaped blued hands with counter poised sweep centre seconds, the movement with 4 conical double-screwed pillars, the high count train with maintaining power, anchor escapement planted on the backplate and with adjustable steel pallets, crutch piece with fine adjustment to the highly elaborate compensated pendulum suspended from the movement bracket with steel knife-edge suspension with twin locking screws, the pendulum of steel and alloy composition with massive chamfered bob centred with fine adjustment nut, the shaft flanked by chamfered steel bars and with central locking nut with blued steel arrow-head pointer, the gilt cover above sliding against an inset brass scale calibrated 0-36, the flattened rectangular lead weight sliding at the back of the case with wires line run over brass pulleys inside the top running to the barrel with unusual ratchet winding wheel planted on the front plate, the movement seated on a massive gilt bracket and secured through the base pillars with elaborate foliate cast bolts, the backplate and bracket stamped souscription Aimé Jacob No.17 7ft.1in. (216cm.) high