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Ormolu and Sevres Porcelain Antique French Clock by Achille Brocot
About the Item
- Creator:Achille Brocot (Clockmaker)
- Similar to:Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Depth: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)
- Style:Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
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- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1880
- Condition:Repaired: Fully overhauled and tested. Wear consistent with age and use. Original gilding is clean and bright with some wear, mostly to the sides of the base and centre finial. Porcelain is excellent with no damage, just very slight wear to the over-glaze gilt decoration and a few or the turquoise 'jewels' missing.
- Seller Location:Belper, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: RSC34871stDibs: LU2496334430352
Achille Brocot
Achille Brocot was a French clockmaker and amateur mathematician. He is known for his discovery of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers, this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks. Several improvements in clock design were attributed to Brocot. He 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.

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