An Empire mahogany and ormolu-mounted striking and calendrical mantel clock with mechanical orrery
BALTAZAR PERE. CIRCA 1810
An Empire mahogany and ormolu-mounted striking and calendrical mantel clock with mechanical orrery Baltazar Pere. Circa 1810 The ebony-strung case surmounted by an orrery driven from a vertically mounted pinion on the hour wheel and incorporating an annual calendar with white enamel chapter ring and year aperture for 1800-1899, white enamel subsidiary dials for twenty-four hours and days of the week, the orrery with gilt-brass sun, revolving inner planets of Venus and Mercury, the Earth with twelve coloured paper gores and revolving on its own tilted axis with silvered moon painted for night and day, the white enamel skeletonised dial with concentric calendar and signed BALTAZAR PERE , ormolu hands, the twin barrels movement with anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum 18½ in. (47 cm.) high
An Empire mahogany and ormolu-mounted striking and calendrical mantel clock with mechanical orrery
BALTAZAR PERE. CIRCA 1810
An Empire mahogany and ormolu-mounted striking and calendrical mantel clock with mechanical orrery Baltazar Pere. Circa 1810 The ebony-strung case surmounted by an orrery driven from a vertically mounted pinion on the hour wheel and incorporating an annual calendar with white enamel chapter ring and year aperture for 1800-1899, white enamel subsidiary dials for twenty-four hours and days of the week, the orrery with gilt-brass sun, revolving inner planets of Venus and Mercury, the Earth with twelve coloured paper gores and revolving on its own tilted axis with silvered moon painted for night and day, the white enamel skeletonised dial with concentric calendar and signed BALTAZAR PERE , ormolu hands, the twin barrels movement with anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum 18½ in. (47 cm.) high
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