c.1895 French Globe Mantle Clock.
Mantle /
Novelty
Inv. #: f251
Circa: 1895
Size: 22" high
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A rare late 19th century gilt-bronze and variegated red marble terrestrial globe clock with world time and annual calendar.
Case
The shaped red variegated marble case has gilt-bronze feet, columns, bezels and is surmounted by the complicated globe mechanism above.
Dial
The gilt bronze dial has Roman numerals for the hours, shaped steel-cut hands and a sunken subsidiary dial showing the days of the week.
Movement
The high quality eight day time and strike movement has a steel suspension, a pin-pallet escapement, is stamped '13125' and '55' and carries two arbors that drive the mechanism above.
Globe
Mounted within the gilt-bronze frame above is the seven inch globe which is signed 'Globe, Adopte, Par Le Conseil De L'Universite, Maison E. Bertaux, Paris, Rue Serpente, 25' . It is driven by the movement below and is carried declined. The silvered engraved equatorial ring above has a small fixed sun and Roman numerals for the hours while below is a horizontally mounted silvered engraved annual calendar ring. Since this could be used as a teaching instrument provisions are made for both disengaging the clockwork from the mechanism above and for manually advancing the globe-work.
Ref: For other globe clocks see 'Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks', by Roberts, pg. 102.
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