98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 487
GLT (André Romain (Phileas) Guilmet), Paris, Height 470 mm, circa 1880
An extremely rare "Pendule Industrial" in the shape of a wind mill, with automaton, barometer and 2 thermometers
Case: brass, partly gilt, black marble base, masoned wind mill, rotating wind mill vanes, hinged clock case, aneroid barometer, lateral thermometers with Celsius and Fahrenheit units. Dial: silvered, gilt centre. Movm.: circular full-plate movement, platform with ring balance and cylinder escapement.
An almost identical "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 "Pendule Industrial" in the shape of a wind mill, with automaton, barometer and 2 thermometers
Case: brass, partly gilt, black marble base, masoned wind mill, rotating wind mill vanes, hinged clock case, aneroid barometer, lateral thermometers with Celsius and Fahrenheit units. Dial: silvered, gilt centre. Movm.: circular full-plate movement, platform with ring balance and cylinder escapement.
An almost identical "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.
estimated
3.500—5.000 €
Price realized
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