Superb Victorian Mantel Clock, Achille Brocot Paris

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 is a family business based in Wolsingham in Weardale where we have had shop premises for 28 years. The shop is generally open every Saturday from 11 am till 3 pm.

You are most welcome to visit the shop but please always check to confirm we are open before travelling. We have been in the antiques trade for well over thirty years now and stock a wide and varied range of antiques and decorative items specialising in carpets and Eastern and Oriental items as well as Georgian and Victorian furniture, mirrors, oil paintings, prints, ceramics and clocks.

We can arrange worldwide delivery on all the items we have in stock, please ask for an accurate quote.

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