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This Dent exhibition clock was made about 1867. It may have been made for the Paris exhibition of 1867, as there is a description in the catalog that may refer to this. Other references say it was a prototype made around 1852 by the Dent firm in cooperation with Edmund Dennison (later Lord Grimthorp), as a model for the escapement for the clock in Westminster Palace commonly known as Big Ben. Either way this movement displays the best example of Bernard-Henri Wagner's, c. 1850, gravity-driven remontoire that this author has ever seem. The Wagner remontoire is the most visually attractive amongst all the remontoire used in horology.
This Dent exhibition clock was made about 1867. It may have been made for the Paris exhibition of 1867, as there is a description in the catalog that may refer to this. Other references say it was a prototype made around 1852 by the Dent firm in cooperation with Edmund Dennison (later Lord Grimthorp), as a model for the escapement for the clock in Westminster Palace commonly known as Big Ben. Either way this movement displays the best example of Bernard-Henri Wagner's, c. 1850, gravity-driven remontoire that this author has ever seem. The Wagner remontoire is the most visually attractive amongst all the remontoire used in horology.
