Louis Moinet à Paris, a bronze and marble mantle clock the e...

Hammer

£950

Louis Moinet à Paris, a bronze and marble mantle clock the eight-day duration movement having a silk suspension and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel and stamped for the maker L. Moinet à Paris, the round silvered dial having black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands within a black marble pillar seated on a rouge marble base with a bronze figure of a classical woman to the side next to an ormolu lamp and books, with applied classical ormolu mounts, height 55cm. * Biography Lois Moinet was a fine maker, born in Bourges in 1768, and was at one time secretary to the famed horloger Abraham-Louis Breguet, clockmaker to Royalty and the gentry, and helped in the publication of Breguet's Traité d'Horlogerie, taking notes and making drawings for his master. In 1848, aged seventy-five, he published his own Traité having parted company with Breguet in 1823. In 1851 he showed a chronometer at the Great Exhibition and died in 1853. Reference: Tardy Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais.