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Clock · Novelty & automaton clock
French silvered and gilt brass novelty automaton windmill timepiece
This late 19th-century French novelty industrial timepiece is modelled as a stone-bonded windmill tower and attributed by the auctioneer to André Romain Guilmet. The case incorporates a silvered brass Roman numeral time dial positioned beneath an aneroid barometer, along with side thermometer scales. The internal eight-day circular timepiece movement utilizes a platform cylinder escapement stamped with serial number 2693. A separate spring-driven movement in the lower base originally powered automaton windmill sails. Resting on a black marble base, the piece features miniature architectural details including windows and a hinged doorway enclosing the automaton winding square.
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Clock · Mystery clock
André Romain Guilmet figural mystery clock
This late 19th-century bronze and black marble mystery clock is catalogued to André Romain Guilmet of Paris. The rectangular black marble case rests on gilt bronze paw feet and features lateral lion-mask ring handles. Surmounting the case is a patinated bronze figure of a classically draped young woman holding aloft a pendulum fitted with a thick, brass-rimmed glass bob. According to the auction description, the pendulum is impulsed via imperceptible oscillation of the circular plinth below the figure. The movement is an eight-day, two-train time and strike mechanism incorporating a crank and stirrup escapement, with back plate stamped for Guilmet and numbered 332.
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www.invaluable.com · 462