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739os C.R
CHARLES OUDIN, PALAIS ROYAL, 52 PARIS. NO. 771. A VERY FINE STRIKING PRECISION TABLE REGULATOR WITH EXTREMELY RARE COUP PERDU GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT AND ELLICOTT COMPENSATED PENDULUM. CIRCA 1865.

A very fine rare and well executed table regulator by this eminent French maker. The fire gilt four glass case of typical form with opening front and rear doors and chamfered glazed panels to the four sides.

The enamel dial with sunken centre on which is mounted the visible coup perdu escapement with Breguet style hands and centre sweep seconds hand. The dial signed and numbered for the maker.

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The exceptional movement with rectangular domed topped plates and employing going barrels for both strike and going train. The extremely rare coup perdu single arm gravity escapement getting its driving power from the central gravity arm and its connected adjustable weight (a similar escapement is illustrated and described in Tardy "La Pendule Francais". The superbly executed pendulum with glazed front to the bob to show the Ellicott lever mechanism for temperature compensation, the pendulum beating against a silvered beat scale fixed to the base of the clock.

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This clock would have been made by the firm run by M. Charpentier who succeeded Charles Oudin and his son. Oudin himself was a celebrated nineteenth century maker and a pupil of Breguet. He was succeeded by his son who in turn was succeeded by Charpentier. The business retained the name of Oudin using the signature Charles Oudin à Paris and sometimes, as in this case, mentioning the links with the navy. The business was at the Palais Royal between 1860 and 1870, thereafter it moved to Rue Charlot and tended to use the name Charpentier rather than Oudin.

Height: 19" (48 cms.).

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