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Antique Skull Desk Table Clock French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Verge Fusee c1800s RARE For Sale


Antique Skull Desk Table Clock French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Verge Fusee c1800s RARE
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Antique Skull Desk Table Clock French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Verge Fusee c1800s RARE:
$3193.98

Antique French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Skull Desk Table Clock Verge Fusee c1800s Antique French Ormolu Gilt Bronze Skull Desk Table Clock Verge Fusee c1800s

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Description

I am pleased to offer from my private collection this very rare antique French Ormolu Gilt Bronze(Bronze-doré) MEMENTO MORI Skull shaped desk clock with Verge Fusee movement c1800's.
(The watch is attributed to the French master Berthoud,but not signed)
This treasure is 220 years old,but preserved in perfect working order and excellent overal condition! Every serious museum or collector would be proud to have such an exponent.

Amazing fire gilt verge hand engraved and hand finished  movement.
Perfect working order(do not expect a quartz accuracy from 220 years old movement. This is a collector's clock-not a daily timekeeper)
 

All parts original-nothing has been ever changed or replaced in this clock!

A matching  key included.

82mm high in total. 400g heavy

Fine gold dial with blue steel hands.

The watch comes with CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

This is a link to the tradition of the memento mori - an object designed to remind us that life is brief and that we should seize the moment while we are here.

Since the beginning of time,the skull is been used as a symbol of mortality, victory, the ultimate Memento Mori.

The skull represented the contemplation of eternity.

In Elizabethan England, it was an emblem of bawds, rakes and sexual adventure. Its a symbol men, in particular, have always loved to paint, carve, cast, and wear.


 

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Every potencial defect which is shown in the photos,but not mention in the description,will be considered for described.All the photos shoot by professional Nikon 105 Macro lens under 40x diopter magnification,so you can explore even the smallest detail like under microscope!

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