Beschreibung:

A fine Regency brass and ebony line-inlaid mahogany month-going longcase regulator with unusual temperature compensation D. & W. Morice, Cornhill London. The movement stamped Holmden 1579. Circa 1810 The case with shallow breakarch top to the hood with ebony-lined quarter panels to the front and glazed doors to the sides with locks, the trunk with stop chamfered angles flanking the brass and ebony-lined glazed trunk door, the plinth with beaded panel and pad feet, circular silvered dial of regulator layout signed D.W. Morice, Cornhill, London , original blued steel hands, the movement with very long thick brass plates joined by six ring-turned conical pillars screwed to the front plate, inverted high count wheel train with six crossings to each wheel and maintaining power to the great wheel with stop work, the deadbeat escapement mounted at the base of the backplate with the escape wheel and anchor individually mounted within a pierced brass bridgecock, the anchor with jewelled pallets and delicate two-pin crutch with wood banking stops either side, fine beat adjustment, the pendulum with steel rod suspended from a brass block at the top of the backboard with temperature-adjustment from a brass rod running down the length of the backboard and resting on a cornelian block, the top of the backplate applied with an additional arched brass extension plate carrying the suspension spring block and with milled brass nut to the right side adjusting the plate from side to side giving fine beat adjustment; together with the original brass-cased oval weight and brass pulley with six crossings 6ft. 7¾in. (202cm.) high