A Fine Mahogany Mantel Regulator with Equation of Time


Signed on the dial and calendar wheel Champion à Paris, dated 1823On stepped molded base, columns of square section with glazed panels between supporting molded cornice, the gilt bezel chased with laurel, white enamel dial with minute ring and roman chapters, gilt Breguet-style hour and mean-time minute hand, blued-steel center seconds and solar minute hands, the equation cam below the dial visible behind crossed-out silvered calendar ring, pinwheel escapement planted on back plate with adjustable polished steel anchor, knife edge suspension for pendulum (now missing) and micrometer beat adjustment to crutch. 22 ½ in. (57cm) high