Late 18th-Century industrial regulator signed
Hubert Sarton, Horloger-mécanicien
de son A.C. à Liège.
Cherrywood case with thick oak backplate.
15-month running
movement with maintaining power and
pin-wheel escapement protected
by anti-dust plates on three top sides .
Very elaborate and unique self-levelling
mechanism held by a second heavy pendulum
connected to to the rear of the movement,
which is suspended by two heavy pins on top

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French Louis XVI gilt and patinated bronze
sculptural glazed mantel clock, approx 1802-3.
 signed Robin à Paris.
Finely pierced gilt hands, the hour hand with
monogram R, steel center-sweeping seconds hand.
Movement with deadbeat escapement on a sixty-teeth
wheel visible at the rear, and signed
Robin Fils à Paris.
The patinated bronze figure of "Amour menaçant" was
modelled after the marble original made for
Madame de Pompadour by Etienne Maurice Falconet
which was exhibited at the Salon of 1757.
Jean-Joseph Robin was Robert Robin's eldest son and
was established in the Rue St-Honoré in Paris in the
late 18thC and early 19thC. He was a clockmaker of
great repute and the quality of his work was well up
to the level attained by his father.
Illustrated in "Tardy, French Clocks The
World Over, part II" pp 138-139.
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