Stand number: 151
Paris scientific instruments and marine antiques specialist Galerie Delande will be returning to TEFAF following a Showcase appearance in 2013. Among the highlights of the firm’s stand will be this 16in (40cm) gilt and silvered steel mechanical universal equinoctial ring dial c.1760 signed Heath and Wing, Strand, London. It is priced in the region of £200,000.
The names of more than 100 world cities are engraved with their latitude on the meridian ring. To the base is a magnetic compass equipped with a pair of bubble levels while a bar, with declination scale, months of the year and the zodiac, bears a hole through which the sunlight can fall on the hour scale.