IMPORTANT E'DIFICE CLOCK in wood carved with... - Lot 31 - Osenat

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IMPORTANT E'DIFICE CLOCK in wood carved with... - Lot 31 - Osenat
IMPORTANT E'DIFICE CLOCK in wood carved with laurel leaves, made at the end of the 18th century by the firm J. Bernard Henri WAGNER and restored during the 19th century by the firm Collin Wagner. Diameter: 148 cm The frame is the same as the one used on the clock of the marble courtyard of the Palace of Versailles in gilded stone, made in 1769 by Pe'pin, under the direction of Leroy, the king's clockmaker. It is one of the only elements of the original clock built under Louis XV that is still in existence, the dial and the mechanism having been changed during the 19th century to give it its present Ne'o-Louis XIV style. Curiously, our clock does not seem to have had a solid back when it was created in the 18th century, since we can see at the back, under the current dial, the presence of another wooden dial with Roman numerals for the hours. This particularity makes our clock a rare realisation of this period. Restored during the 19th century, this wooden dial was hidden by the addition of a zinc sheet dial on which the numbers were painted with the name of the company changed to "Collin Wagner" in 1852. Indeed, this clock manufacturing company was created in 1790 in Paris by J. Bernard-Henri WAGNER, sometimes called "Wagner uncle". He was joined a few years later by his nephew Bernard-Henri Wagner who took over the company and diversified it by manufacturing various machines such as counters, me'tronomes and wind vanes. Rewarded with silver medals at every exhibition of French industry, the reporter of the 1844 exhibition said of the company that "The name of Wagner is to large-scale watchmaking what the names Berthoud and Breguet are to precision watchmaking". In 1852, three years before his death, Bernard-Henri Wagner handed over the company to Armand-Franc¸ois Collin, who in turn became one of the most prominent watchmakers in Paris. He won awards at the Universal Exhibitions of 1855, 1860, 1867, 1875 and 1878, and in 1881 he also won a gold medal at the International Electricity Exhibition. In 1867, he designed a clock for the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. His two-metre clock disappeared in a dramatic fire on 15 April 2019.
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