A FRENCH CONTEMPORARY GILT BRASS ASTRONOMICAL TIMEPIECE HOUR LAVIGNE, PARIS, LATE 20th CENTURY With quartz movement set along with the motionwork within a stepped cylinder fronted by a dial formed as an astrolabic projection, with rotating pierced rete incorporating year calendar dial to the eccentric inner ring and zodiacal symbols to outer track, with engraved dragon calendar pointer, sunburst phase of the month, and twenty-four hour hand incorporating revolving day-and-night indication sphere to tip and reading against the outer Roman numeral engraved chapter ring annotated I-XII twice, set beneath a smaller timepiece quartz timepiece cradled on leafy scroll engraved infill and inscribed Hour Lavigne, a Paris depuis 1848 to centre within a black on gilt Roman numeral chapter ring, with fine pierced and engraved blued steel arrow hands, set beneath a rectangular five-panel glass cover capped at the corners over brushed gilt brass base with disc feet. 32cm (12.5ins) high, 23cm (9ins) wide, 15cm (6ins) deep. Provenance: From the private collection of a titled family.
A FRENCH CONTEMPORARY GILT BRASS ASTRONOMICAL TIMEPIECE HOUR LAVIGNE, PARIS, LATE 20th CENTURY With quartz movement set along with the motionwork within a stepped cylinder fronted by a dial formed as an astrolabic projection, with rotating pierced rete incorporating year calendar dial to the eccentric inner ring and zodiacal symbols to outer track, with engraved dragon calendar pointer, sunburst phase of the month, and twenty-four hour hand incorporating revolving day-and-night indication sphere to tip and reading against the outer Roman numeral engraved chapter ring annotated I-XII twice, set beneath a smaller timepiece quartz timepiece cradled on leafy scroll engraved infill and inscribed Hour Lavigne, a Paris depuis 1848 to centre within a black on gilt Roman numeral chapter ring, with fine pierced and engraved blued steel arrow hands, set beneath a rectangular five-panel glass cover capped at the corners over brushed gilt brass base with disc feet. 32cm (12.5ins) high, 23cm (9ins) wide, 15cm (6ins) deep. Provenance: From the private collection of a titled family.
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