Ormolu bronze gilt dial which gives them this slightly green aspect ( technique that has been forgotten because of the mortal mercury vapors ), finely decorated with a rosette and circled with an ivy garland starting from a node, also bronze gilt. Black rosette center and Roman numerals.
Beautiful 4 inch Pons movement (108 mm), trains are of grand finesse, pivots are very thin in the 18th century tradition ( Clockmakers considered more pivots were thin more the mechanic system was soft and regular, but with hindsight this was not confirmed, on the other hand, because of the fine pivots, these movements are very delicate to repair ). Locking-plate striking-work, strikes the hours and halve hours, hammer banking. Ordinary small pallet escapement with a 5 ½ teeth opening, this type of pallet was used at the time with light pendulums with a silk suspension wire which provided in this conjunction a very regular run. Silk suspension, adjustment by ream on front at 12 o'clock.
Backplate stamped "Pons Silver Medal Pon 1823 ». Honoré Pons, a talented Parisian clockmaker - at the request of the Seine-inférieure prefect – moved, in 1807, to St Nicolas d'Aliermont in order to mechanize the production of "blanc-roulant", among other things he established the separation of tasks made possible by machines of his invention : splitting, polishing, rounding off. Indeed until then, the St Nicolas productions were, for a century, solely made by hand. Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont, home of a remarkable museum for its past clockmaking.
The springs are signed by the clock repairer "Chamoy September 1832" settled in Quincampoix street, Paris, in 1812.
Then follow a number of markings :
- On the movement spring "repaired on December 4 1934 by Dagonnier "
- On the striking-work spring "repaired on December 4 1934 by an unemployed living Mourguet street in Lyon, remained 50 years without working "
- On the dial's plate : “by Goutard on January 27, 1843”, “ Guy Empère December 4, 1934»