Gilt brass and marble table regulator with escapement a coup perdu, overhanging pendulum and highly unusual power system. Brosse a Bordeaux (France), circa 1840.

Gilt brass and marble table regulator with escapement a coup perdu, overhanging pendulum and highly unusual power system. Brosse a Bordeaux (France), circa 1840. Brosse a Bordeaux (France), circa 1840. Very rare, highly unusual, fine gilt brass and marble table regulator with escapement a coup perdu, overhanging pendulum and highly unusual power system. C. Carrara marble base of six molded rectangular pieces, separated by gilt brass, four fluted columns with twisted finials, four steel rod frame finished with white marble top with four torch finials at the corners and one larger one at the top, the bottom of the frame fitted with gilt brass structure holding two pear-shaped weights. D. Silvered, champleve Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds at the top. Unusual "Cardinal stick" and "poker" blued steel hands. M. Brass, two weights wound by a chain and system of pulleys and cords, five-wheel train, chronometer escapement, ruby impulse pallet, overhanging mercury pendulum, spring suspension. Signed on the dial. Diam. Height 125 cm, width 50 cm.