101st Auction
2019/11/16
Lot 615
French, Height 720 mm, circa 1890
An extremely rare, unusually large "Pendule Industrial" in the shape of a wind mill, with automaton, barometer and 2 thermometers
Case: brass and steel, partly gilt, partly blued, black marble base, masoned wind mill, rotating wind mill vanes, hinged clock case, aneroid barometer, 2 thermometers to the sides with Centigrad / Reaumur and Fahrenheit units. Dial: silvered, Arabic hours, gilt centre, blued hands. Movm.: circular brass full-plate movement, platform with ring balance and cylinder escapement.
An almost identical, but by far not so large "Pendule Industrial" is part of the permanent collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing and is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue page 275 and in: Derek Roberts: "Mystery, novelty, and fantasy clocks", 1999, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., pages 265 and 268.
An extremely rare, unusually large "Pendule Industrial" in the shape of a wind mill, with automaton, barometer and 2 thermometers
Case: brass and steel, partly gilt, partly blued, black marble base, masoned wind mill, rotating wind mill vanes, hinged clock case, aneroid barometer, 2 thermometers to the sides with Centigrad / Reaumur and Fahrenheit units. Dial: silvered, Arabic hours, gilt centre, blued hands. Movm.: circular brass full-plate movement, platform with ring balance and cylinder escapement.
An almost identical, but by far not so large "Pendule Industrial" is part of the permanent collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing and is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue page 275 and in: Derek Roberts: "Mystery, novelty, and fantasy clocks", 1999, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., pages 265 and 268.
Sold
estimated
8.500—12.000 €
Price realized
11.300 €