A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK MARBLE PENDULE ENCRIER
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
CASE: modelled with a celestial globe dial supported by a crouching eagle amongst lightning bolts, flanked to each side by a ceramic ink-well, on a serpentine moulded base fronted by a pen rest DIAL: with individual brass chapters and hands MOVEMENT: the movement with twin barrels, monometallic cylinder balance to platform escapement, countwheel strike on bell, the backplate signed 'MOSER A PARIS'
11 in. (28 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (22.5 cm.) deep
A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK MARBLE PENDULE ENCRIER
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
CASE: modelled with a celestial globe dial supported by a crouching eagle amongst lightning bolts, flanked to each side by a ceramic ink-well, on a serpentine moulded base fronted by a pen rest DIAL: with individual brass chapters and hands MOVEMENT: the movement with twin barrels, monometallic cylinder balance to platform escapement, countwheel strike on bell, the backplate signed 'MOSER A PARIS'
11 in. (28 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41.5 cm.) wide; 9 in. (22.5 cm.) deep
