£2,000 - £3,000
Rare German mahogany wall regulator with Riefler pendulum, circa 1911, silvered dial of regulator format, with recessed subsidiary seconds and hours dials, blued steel hands and wound through the winding collet, the eight day movement with tapered plates with four front and back screwed pillars, weight-driven with jewelled pallets to the Graham dead beat escapement, jewels to escape wheel and pallet arbor, with stop work to winding barrel and maintaining power, the three-quarter second type J invar pendulum inscribed RIEFLER/MÜNCHEN/D.R.P./190870/1302, 39½" high
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** Dieter Riefler, Riefler Präzision-pendeluhren von 1890-1965, Callwey, 1981. Riefler produced pendulums to a number of other makers of high quality clocks, as well as their own precision clock
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** Provenance - Christies ex lot 108, Clocks & Barometer, 13 April 2005
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** From the David Read Collection
From the David Read Collection
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