Description
This is the most common model we see that was sold at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Details on this clock can be found in Royer-Collard's book titled Skeleton Clocks , pages 69-70, and also in La Pendule Francaise, Part II , in the Napoleon III section. The porcelain dial has a hairline across the numeral 10, but no chips, and is signed Pierret, Paris. The plates have turned brown due to absence of dome, but clock ticks OK; alarm is sound but pull-cord has broken. Original silk thread susp and pendulum. We have sold these for as much as $1800 when complete with dome, and they appear on the Internet with reserves over $2000. Height 8 1/2"
Record courtesy of R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts