French Empire longcase regulator

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KOL
Kollenburg Antiquairs BV
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Movement
The two-week movement features a chronometer escapement and knife-edge suspension. It is driven by a single weight and has a compensation pendulum with fine adjustment. The movement is signed on the back plate: Jean Aimé Jacob à Lyon. 

The dial features three enamel chapter rings. The outer, largest ring notes the minutes in Arabic numerals; within it are two smaller rings, the lower of which indicates the hours in Roman numerals, while the upper shows the seconds in Arabic numerals. The gilt brass centre of the minutes ring bears the signature Aimé Jacob à Lyon.

Case
The clock is installed within a stately straight case, entirely veneered with flame mahogany. The large central door occupies the entire front of the clock apart from the base and the hood, and is divided into two panels: one glazed, one veneered, both framed within gilt bronze moulding.  

Jean-Aimé Jacob was one of France’s most prominent clockmakers of the second half of the nineteenth century, specialised in precision clocks. Born in Sisteron, he moved to Paris at a relatively young age, where he began working in Pierre-Louis Berthoud’s workshop in April 1813. When Berthoud passed away a few months later, his widow asked Jean-François-Henri Motel to carry on the business. Jacob continued to work under Motel for a few years, then took up employment under the famous watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. After a remarkable career in Paris, where he won several gold and silver medals at exhibitions of French industrial products, Jacob opened a workshop in Saint Nicholas d’Aliermont, a town considered to be the centre of horological excellence. He soon gained recognition for his inventiveness and perfectly finished creations, and became famous for his chronometers, chronographs and compensation regulators. He also devised a variety of important technical improvements. In November 1589, Jean-Aimé Jacob was awarded the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), after which it seems that he gradually withdrew from the profession. He died in Dieppe on 30 January 1871.

Name
French Empire longcase regulator
Categories
Regulator Clocks
Periods
19th Century Antique ca. 1820
Materials
oakwood carcass veneered with mahagony, gilt bronze, enamel
Styles
Empire
Measurements
Height: 216 cm, Width: 32 cm, Depth: 26 cm
Reference
KOLA100628
KOL
Kollenburg Antiquairs BV
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Artlistings seller since 2015

Located in Oirschot
The Netherlands

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