GLOBE CLOCK WHITE Rédier a Paris Circa 1870 France

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GLOBE CLOCK WHITE
Signed: Rédier a Paris
Circa 1870
France

Movement
Brass plated with cylinder escapement and balance, driven by a barrel.

Dial
There is a gilded brass equatorial band which is marked out for the hours and half hours and bears domed enamelled arabic numerals (1 to 12 twice). The time is indicated by a decorative blued steel and gilded sunburst hand.

Case
The gimbal supporting the globe rests on a turned brass column with an octagonal marble base. To wind it a two-pronged key is inserted through the base of the gimbal into a brass disc at the bottom of the globe which is attached to the movement. Rotating the globe anti-clock-wise will then wind the clock. The globe bears Rédier’s decorative monogram, which acts as his trade-mark.

Duration: 1 week
Height: 18,5 cm.
Diameter: 8,5 cm./ 13.5 cm. incl. system.

Literature
-Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, blz. 546 – 547.
-This outstanding “sphère mouvante” was first presented and described in detail in “La Nature Revue des Sciences” in June 1883.

The maker
Antoine Rédier, an eminent maker of clocks and registering instruments. He was born in Perpignan 1817 and died in Melun 1892, ‘elève de Perrelet’ and successor of Duchemin. In 1850 Redier was recorded to work at Place du Châtelet, in 1860 at Cour des Petites-Ecuries, Rédier et Cie: 1870-1880. He published several memoirs (“Mémoire sur le pendule conique”. Paris 1861), and was associated with his son in 1883, at St-Nicolas-d’Aliermont. Used aluminium in gridiron pendulums and for escape wheels.

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