M. Halbkram Year Duration Floor Regulator

Description:

M. Halbkram Year Duration Floor Regulator, Vienna, c.1880, fully engraved dial marked M Halbkram, with silvered chapter ring and porcelain cartouche Roman numerals, center with subsidiary seconds, delicate, blued, pierced steel hands, a triple-plate timepiece movement with maintaining power, deadbeat escapement and crutch beat adjustment, the winding drum and center wheel arbor between the front and backplate with the rest of the train between the center and rear plate, pierced pulley and crutch, powered by a brass cased weight and regulated by a pendulum, all in an ornate walnut case with glazed waist door, ht. 86 in.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Clock appears to have been cleaned fairly recently and is currently running.


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