Rams Head Antiques

Description

This is a fine quality 8 day mantel clock by the most famous and celebrated French clockmaker and inventor Achille Brocot (1817-1878). The stunning case is gold plated on solid brass and has a beautiful porcelain dial and inset panel finely hand enamelled in delightful colours with birds butterflies and cherry blossom. The case is stamped to the base with factory numbers that correspond to the painted numbers on the reverse of the porcelain panel. The movement is stamped with the Brocot mark and its identifying numbers which also correspond to the pendulum showing it to be the original. The movement has been fully overhauled and keeps excellent time, running for eight days and striking a lovely tone on a bell on the hour and half hour. The Paris retailer is marked to the dial and the clock has adjustable feet for levelling purposes.
Achille Brocot was a French clockmaker, mathematician and inventor. Brocot patented several improvements in clock design and invented the "Brocot Suspension", which enabled time keeping to be regulated by altering the length of the pendulum suspension spring by a key turned in the dial. He is also known for his co-discovery of the Stern-Brocot Tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers, an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.
The clock measures 14 inches in height and 7 inches in width and 5 inches in depth.
Rams Head Antiques of Wolsingham, Weardale. Open Saturdays 11 - 5 or by appointment. You are most welcome to call and collect or delivery can be arranged at cost, unless free delivery is specified in the item description.
Rams Head Antiques is a family business based in County Durham. We have been in the antiques trade for almost thirty years. We stock a wide and varied range of antiques and decorative items including Georgian and Victorian furniture, mirrors, oil paintings and prints, ceramics, clocks, rugs, oriental items and militaria.
We can arrange delivery on all the items we have in stock, please ask for an accurate quote.
We offer a full money back guarantee if you are not happy for whatever reason within a seven day period as long as the buyer pays for return transport.