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Take a look at the clock that auctioned at Sotheby's for a record
$6,802,500 on Tuesday, Dec. 4. It's the Duc d'Orleans Breguet
Sympathique clock dated 1835. Notice the pocket watch mounted above the
clock. Sotheby's
calls the clock "a unique and highly important ormolu-mounted red
tortoiseshell boulle-style Royal Sympathique quarter-striking clock and
half-quarter repeating gold watch." It's named "Duc d'Orleans" after its
patron and has the most complex Sympathique mechanism of all known
examples: it is the only one known to wind, set time, and regulate its
accompanying pocket watch via the cradle mounted onto the clock's
pediment. Read more.. |
