Clocks · Clock
Rueg Made for Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, circa 2015
- Maker / attribution
- Rueg Made for Blancpain (brand / maker)
- Date
- circa 2015
- Historical period
- Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
- Country of origin
- Switzerland
- Object type
- Clock
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Auction house
- Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
- Lot
- Lot 390-72
- Credit line
- Auction lot record: LOT 72
- Catalogue title (original)
- RUEG MADE FOR BLANCPAIN, SWITZERLAND, FIFTY FATHOMS, WALL CLOCK
Record summary
Catalogued by Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva (lot Lot 390-72), this is a clock by Rueg Made for Blancpain, made in Switzerland, dated circa 2015. The Atlas places it in the Contemporary Horology period (2010 – Present) of its Clocks collection. Recorded dimensions: 25 cm. The record is illustrated with 1 photograph.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Antiquorum catalogue description
A fine, stainless steel, quartz wall clock
Lot specifications (Antiquorum)
Signature: Dial and Case (Ruegg)
Historical context
Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
Silicon components, connected watches, optical-lattice research clocks and a thriving independent scene.
Today time is distributed by satellite navigation and networks with nanosecond accuracy, while mechanical clocks are made as art, design and craft objects. Contemporary designers explore the clock as sculpture and kinetic art.
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Atlas type guide
Regulators, wall and Vienna clocks
A regulator is a precision pendulum clock used as a time standard in observatories, workshops and railway offices. Typical features are a deadbeat or Graham escapement, a temperature-compensated pendulum (mercury jar, gridiron or later invar), maintaining power and a regulator dial that separates hours, minutes and seconds. George Graham's deadbeat escapement (c. 1715) and his mercury pendulum, together with Harrison's gridiron, set the pattern for two centuries.
Wall clocks span a much wider range: the elegant Viennese Laterndluhr and Dachluhr of the Biedermeier period, the Dutch stoelklok and staartklok, English 'dial' clocks used in schools, offices and railway stations, and mass-produced spring and weight wall clocks from Germany (Gustav Becker, Junghans, Kienzle) and America.
What to look for
- Deadbeat escapement and compensated pendulum (gridiron rods, mercury jar or wood rod).
- A regulator dial with a large central minute hand and separate hour and seconds dials.
- Vienna regulators: glazed cases, slender pendulum, small weights, enamel two-piece dials.
- German factory trademarks stamped on the backplate (e.g. Gustav Becker anchor and crown, Junghans star).
Dating clues
- Graham-type deadbeat regulators: from c. 1720.
- Viennese Laterndluhr: c. 1800–1850.
- German factory 'Vienna-style' regulators: c. 1870–1930; Gustav Becker serial numbers allow close dating.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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