RARE MYSTERIOUS HANGING NAPOLEON III with a black marble and - Lot 252

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2500 - 3500 EUR
RARE MYSTERIOUS HANGING NAPOLEON III with a black marble and - Lot 252
RARE MYSTERIOUS HANGING NAPOLEON III with a black marble and gilt bronze base surmounted by a patinated metal statue holding the pendulum. This rare system of pendulum oscillating by shaking a statuette was patented by GUILMET, a watchmaker in PARIS in 1867. The movement is signed G.L.T. patented. Ink escapement at 90° from the wheel. The fork that maintains the pendulum's oscillations is placed in the platform on which the statue stands. In working order. H.62 L.28 P.18. Bibliography : Clémenti, Guilmet's mysterious pendulum. Identical model reproduced in the Tardy page 489 and a similar model in the French Clock of KJELLBERG, page 483.
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