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French Industrial Animated Lighthouse-Form Clock
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French Industrial Animated Lighthouse-Form Clock
late 19th century
the turret rotates clockwise and is animated by an independent movement contained in the base, with a time dial, aneroid barometer dial and two thermometers on the sides
17 x 6 1/2 inches
French Industrial Animated Lighthouse Clock
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French Industrial Animated Lighthouse Clock. Gilt polished brass case in the form of a lighthouse with cylindrical base, conical stem, spindled walkway above and double sided rotating top; stands on an ebonized wood base with separate spring driven mechanism powering the animated top and winding through the hinged front door. The front has a 3.25 in. porcelain dial with black Roman hour numerals, black hands, beaded door bezel with beveled crystal. Brass spring driven 8 day movement running on a cylinder escapement; the reverse has a 3.25 in. porcelain dial for the Aneroid barometer with open center, Centigrade & Fahrenheit stick thermometers on the left and right. In good condition, each mechanism is running, has key for animated mechanism. 22 in. high.
French Industrial Animated Windmill Clock
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Rare French Industrial Animated Windmill Clock. Conical form, the front is mounted with 4 windmill blades rotating clockwise. The mid-section has a textured surface resembling a stone structure. The front center shows the round silvered 2 in. dial of the timepiece under a aneroid barometer with thermometers on either side. The lower base has a smooth brass finish and is accented with 2 faux windows and a trap door in between, which reveals the wind for the animated mechanism, all over a black marble platform base and weathervane top. In good original condition, 18 in. high x 7 in. dia.
French Industrial “Lighthouse” clock
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Popular in the 1870s, the French industrial clocks were both mechanically clever and meticulously made. This lighthouse clock stands 22″, making it a larger model. When running the model Fresno light atop the structure oscillates on the half seconds, acting as the pendulum of the clock which displays the time below. The cast brass components are silvered, gilt, and sometimes patinated.
French Industrial Lighthouse Clock
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French Industrial Animated Lighthouse Clock. The top of the light tower has a silvered finish with a timepiece on the front, thermometers left and right and a barometer on the back. Driven from a separate movement in the base of the tower, the top section oscillates clockwise showing the 4 sides. The time only hairspring movement has a silvered 2.25 in. dial matching that of the barometer on the reverse and they both have a gilt bezel with beveled glass. The gilt body has a nice finish with incised brickwork replicating the structure of the tower with copper colored windows and door. 17 in. high x 6.5 in. dia.
Brass French Industrial Lighthouse Clock
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Brass French Industrial Lighthouse Clock. The brass lighthouse tower has a graphite finish with an incised staggered geometric pattern resembling the bricks or stones that make up the tower, also has a raised section in the base that resembles a door with windows on either side and 2 more windows in the midsection. 2.25 in. Enamel dial has black Roman numerals with spade and diamond hands, round brass spring driven movement is in working condition. 21 in. high
A good late 19th century French industrial lighthouse clock
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France, an industrial lighthouse compendium with rotating lantern room, the tapering, architectural case with gold plated, faux ashlar exterior, the base and column with simulated windows and door, a projecting gallery with balustrade surrounding the nickel plated, rotating, domed lantern room with finial, containing an 8 day timepiece with roman numeral silvered dial with blued steel distaff hands, opposite an aneroid barometer with silvered dial and gilt center, and flanking, silvered Fahrenheit, Centigrade and Reamur thermometers, all resting on a round, black slate base, with conforming ebonized wooden base and dome