104th Auction
2021/5/22
Lot 340
André Romain Guilmet zugeschrieben/attributed to
An extremely rare "Pendule Industrial" with automaton in the shape of a revolving lantern
estimated
8.500—12.000 €
Price realized
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specific features
Case
Brass, gilt, silvered, marble base.
Dial
Silvered, Roman numerals, blued steel hands, aneroid barometer, thermometer with Reaumur and Fahrenheit units, compass.
Movement
Brass movement with applied echappement, additional spring driven mechanism for the rotating mechanism of the lantern.
Diam.490 mm
Circa1890
Ctry.French
The bollard, wrapped with a hawser and mounted with an anchor, lifebelt, davits and ratchet mechanism has mounted above it a lantern which rotates, containing a double dialled timepiece, barometer, thermometer and compass.
A nearly identical clock is illustrated and described in: Derek Roberts: "Mystery, novelty, and fantasy clocks", 1999, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., page 259.