Gilt brass and polished and blackened mahogany... - Lot 223 - Tessier & Sarrou et Associés

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Gilt brass and polished and blackened mahogany... - Lot 223 - Tessier & Sarrou et Associés
Gilt brass and polished and blackened mahogany striking clock with calendar and planetary wheel, unsigned, the movement stamped 'L. Marti & Cie/ Médaille de Bronze' and numbered 28519-20 About 1865/70 Total height 66,5 cm W. 28,4 cm D. 19 cm. Diameter of the globe 23 mm. White enamel dial (some tiny scratches), Roman numerals for the hours divided without numbering at 12 minutes, blued steel 'Breguet' hands; round movement with two barrels, Brocot escapement, spring suspension, balance wheel with steel stem and brass lens with height adjustment, striking on a stamped 'B' inside. Transmission for the planetary gear from the rear plate to a rectangular plate carrying three gears to animate the vertical axis meshed by a steel pinion with a wheel train controlling two small white enamel dials showing, on the left, the hours (1-12 x 2) of the morning and evening and, on the right, the days of the week. The planetary train is located behind these dials around a central cylindrical column bearing the Sun crossed by the lower planets (Mercury and Venus) and the Earth-Moon system. The whole is executed in gilded brass, except for the globe of the Earth made of printed and colored paper, with the oceans and the continents named. The Earth-Moon system rotates inside a white enamel calendar (missing the index) bearing the names of the months each divided into days (February twenty-eight). A window at the end of the division for January shows the year, while a white enamel ring around the Earth announces 'Orbit of the moon traveled in 29 days 12 hours and 44 minutes' and marks the nodes. Cabinet glazed on all four sides with the rear door frame and those of the interior, blackened. The bezel, four legs and face frames in gilt brass as well as the applique representing two sphinxes on either side of a laurel wreath. Small accident on the left front corner. Interesting and elegant planetary clock probably inspired by the clocks of this kind popularized by Zacharie Raingo and his successors, even if the gear train for the planetary part is not the same. The layout of our clock, however, is identical, both for the trains and the dials, mounted on a striking clock by Baltazar Sr. contained in a veneered beechwood case of terminal shape (Chayette & Cheval: Succession Maurice Fronteau, 1st sale, July 4, 2003 lot 240). The maker of the movement of our clock, Samuel Marti (1811-69), settled in Montbéliard in 1832. He became renowned for his mass production (several tens of thousands of movements per year) of high quality Paris movements. The bronze medal mentioned in his mark was awarded to him in 1860. The manufacture will be continued by his eldest son, Auguste Samuel (born in 1864), after his graduation from the Ecole Polytechnique (class of 1884). He was elected Mayor of Montbéliard for the year 1896-97.
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