A Victorian mahogany wall regulator with gravity escapement Dent, 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange. London. No. 1344; circa 1852 The 15 in. diam. silvered regulator dial signed Dent, 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange, London. Clock Maker to the Queen. 1344 and engraved on the bezel DENISON'S GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT , all hands of blued steel, the seconds ring inverted with the hour ring and with cut-out showing the escapement with fly wheel, the movement with four robust pillars and rectangular brass plates, the wheels with "club" teeth, Harrison's maintaining power, out-size great wheel, caged pinions, three-leg gravity escapement with steel pallets and brass arms, the pendulum of steel and zinc form with large rhomboid shaped bob with milled and notched rating nut, large black-painted lead weight with recess to the top to take the large brass pulley, the pendulum and movement suspended from a massive black-painted iron back board suspending the mahogany case from two brackets, the case itself with two movement apertures to the sides and below that brass handles, the front with arched rectangular lenticle beneath the glazed dial in-set with Dent's shuttered winding aperture 57¼ ins (145.5 cm) high
A Victorian mahogany wall regulator with gravity escapement Dent, 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange. London. No. 1344; circa 1852 The 15 in. diam. silvered regulator dial signed Dent, 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange, London. Clock Maker to the Queen. 1344 and engraved on the bezel DENISON'S GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT , all hands of blued steel, the seconds ring inverted with the hour ring and with cut-out showing the escapement with fly wheel, the movement with four robust pillars and rectangular brass plates, the wheels with "club" teeth, Harrison's maintaining power, out-size great wheel, caged pinions, three-leg gravity escapement with steel pallets and brass arms, the pendulum of steel and zinc form with large rhomboid shaped bob with milled and notched rating nut, large black-painted lead weight with recess to the top to take the large brass pulley, the pendulum and movement suspended from a massive black-painted iron back board suspending the mahogany case from two brackets, the case itself with two movement apertures to the sides and below that brass handles, the front with arched rectangular lenticle beneath the glazed dial in-set with Dent's shuttered winding aperture 57¼ ins (145.5 cm) high
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