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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Mantel/table pendulum clock · Paris

The nickel-plated metal case has glass on all four sides

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The annular dial is engraved with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the five minutes, with a small eccentric seconds dial in the upper part.

Technical facts

Inventory number
MIH IV-337
Object type
Mantel/table pendulum clock
Place of production
Paris
Dating
1868
Materials and techniques (catalogue wording)
Laiton, Laiton, Acier
Dimensions (catalogue)
Dimensions: 46.0 x 26.0 x 19.0 cm
Inscriptions (catalogue)
Breguet N°1150 Brevete SGDG (cadran); Breguet (cabinet); PK (base du diapason)

Historical significance

  • The annular dial is engraved with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the five minutes, with a small eccentric seconds dial in the upper part.
  • The clock movement was built on the principles set down in patent n° 73414 registered on 20 October 1866 by Louis-Clément Breguet. It has two barrels, a train and an escapement. The regulating organ is a steel tuning-fork, two hundred and fifty millimetres in length and vibrating at one hundred hertz. One of its arms touches the escapement, whose function is to keep it vibrating.

Photographs

The nickel-plated metal case has glass on all four sides (MIH IV-337)
The nickel-plated metal case has glass on all four sides (MIH IV-337) — Musée international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum collection photograph, rights review pending. MIH collection record
The nickel-plated metal case has glass on all four sides (MIH IV-337)
The nickel-plated metal case has glass on all four sides (MIH IV-337) — Musée international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum collection photograph, rights review pending. MIH collection record

Photographs are illustrative examples of the type, not necessarily the exact object described. Verify details against the source file page.

Sources & references

  1. Musée international d'horlogerie, online collection record, inv. IV-337: https://collection.mih.ch/fr/collection/item/35913/

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.