A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMBOYNA STRIKING ORRERY CLOCK
RAINGO FRÈRES AND LEROY & FILS, PARIS. CIRCA 1830
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMBOYNA STRIKING ORRERY CLOCK RAINGO FRÈRES AND LEROY & FILS, PARIS. CIRCA 1830 CASE: neo-classical rotunda case with lanceolate leaf ormolu mouldings DIAL: engraved and silvered, with inner concentric day and deity ring, signed 'LEROY & FILS H.RES DU ROI/RAINGO FRERES H.RS B.TE DU ROI/A PARIS', blued steel hands MOVEMENT: twin going barrels, dead beat anchor escapement, countwheel strike bell, drive to orrery above; front swinging gridiron pendulum ORRERY: rotating anti-clockwise, showing the motions of the earth and moon (moon lacking) in relation to the sun, a silvered disc giving the age of the moon as it rotates around the earth (this with twelve paper gores), a twice-twelve-hour ring above, further leap year disc, the whole assembly driven by an independent four-year-going barrel movement, rotating once a year against an engraved and silvered calendar ring within a band of ormolu zodiac tablets, crank adjustment handle 26½ in (67.5 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) diameter
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMBOYNA STRIKING ORRERY CLOCK
RAINGO FRÈRES AND LEROY & FILS, PARIS. CIRCA 1830
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMBOYNA STRIKING ORRERY CLOCK RAINGO FRÈRES AND LEROY & FILS, PARIS. CIRCA 1830 CASE: neo-classical rotunda case with lanceolate leaf ormolu mouldings DIAL: engraved and silvered, with inner concentric day and deity ring, signed 'LEROY & FILS H.RES DU ROI/RAINGO FRERES H.RS B.TE DU ROI/A PARIS', blued steel hands MOVEMENT: twin going barrels, dead beat anchor escapement, countwheel strike bell, drive to orrery above; front swinging gridiron pendulum ORRERY: rotating anti-clockwise, showing the motions of the earth and moon (moon lacking) in relation to the sun, a silvered disc giving the age of the moon as it rotates around the earth (this with twelve paper gores), a twice-twelve-hour ring above, further leap year disc, the whole assembly driven by an independent four-year-going barrel movement, rotating once a year against an engraved and silvered calendar ring within a band of ormolu zodiac tablets, crank adjustment handle 26½ in (67.5 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) diameter
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