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Elektrische Pendeluhr Vigreux - Brillié Nr. 2, ca. 1900

Maker: Vigreux- Brillié.
Description: An early 20th century electric mantle regulator by the eminent French clockmaker Vigreux Brillié. The gilt bronze and green onyx glazed case perfectly displays the skeletonized movement and compensating pendulum.
Case: The gilt-bronze case has a shaped green onyx top and base, thick beveled glasses and adjustable feet.
Dial: The white porcelain chapter ring dial has Roman numerals for the hours, steel cut Breguet-type hands, a seconds beating sweep seconds hand and is signed Electrique and Vigreux Brillié.
Movement: The movement has shaped skeletonized plates with well-cut wheelwork and an electrical contact mounted to the backplate. The multi metal compensating type-b Brillie pendulum is suspended by a suspension spring and receives impulse by the energized coil attracting the iron hoop each second.
Notes: The pendulum is stamped ‘2’. Size: 22 inch - 56 cm.