A FRENCH SILVERED AND GILT BRASS NOVELTY AUTOMATON WINDMILL TIMEPIECE ANDRE ROMAIN GUILMET, LATE 19th CENTURY The eight-day single train circular timepiece movement with replaced gilt platform lever escapement regulated by monometallic balance vertically planted on the backplate next to stamped serial number 1777, the 2.25 inch circular silvered brass Roman numeral dial with recessed gilt centre and blued steel hands set behind hinged bevel-glazed bezel, positioned beneath a now vestigial barometer with rosette-centred silvered scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations set within rotating glazed bezel incorporating setting pointer to the glass, the case modelled as a windmill tower with pennant flag to the conical roof over arrangement of four revolving sails powered by a spring-barrel driven movement positioned within the base of the structure manually controlled via a lever to the left hand side, the slightly flared cylindrical upright rendered with bonded blocks and applied with later spirit Centigrade thermometers to each side, the circular plinth base with foliate pierced brass gallery over hinged miniature door enclosing the winding square for the windmill sail movement flanked by dummy windows, with moulded gilt brass skirt set on a circular marble plinth, (barometer mechanism lacking, thermometers replaced). 47.5cm (18.75ins) high, 19cm (7.5ins) wide, 18cm (7ins) deep. Andre Romain Guilmet was born on the 10th of December 1827 in La Ferte-Gaucher, France. He was a credited as a watchmaker and inventor who specialised in producing novelty and mystery clocks for which he applied for a number of patents for designs. Amongst his other Patents was that for a bicycle where the driving chain was set below the seat. He is best known for his 'mysterieuse' figural clock with glass pendulum, this takes the form of a woman holding pendulum in her outstretched hand and arm over a marble base containing the clock below. The pendulum is impulsed by the mechanism underneath her that moves the figure imperceptibly from side to side (see following lot). Guilmet's industrial series of clocks, which includes the current lot, features automated clocks in the form of windmills, lighthouses, automobiles, boats, steam hammers, boilers, etc.; another 'windmill' automaton timepiece from this series is illustrated in Roberts, Derek Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, figure 22-28.
A FRENCH SILVERED AND GILT BRASS NOVELTY AUTOMATON WINDMILL TIMEPIECE ANDRE ROMAIN GUILMET, LATE 19th CENTURY The eight-day single train circular timepiece movement with replaced gilt platform lever escapement regulated by monometallic balance vertically planted on the backplate next to stamped serial number 1777, the 2.25 inch circular silvered brass Roman numeral dial with recessed gilt centre and blued steel hands set behind hinged bevel-glazed bezel, positioned beneath a now vestigial barometer with rosette-centred silvered scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations set within rotating glazed bezel incorporating setting pointer to the glass, the case modelled as a windmill tower with pennant flag to the conical roof over arrangement of four revolving sails powered by a spring-barrel driven movement positioned within the base of the structure manually controlled via a lever to the left hand side, the slightly flared cylindrical upright rendered with bonded blocks and applied with later spirit Centigrade thermometers to each side, the circular plinth base with foliate pierced brass gallery over hinged miniature door enclosing the winding square for the windmill sail movement flanked by dummy windows, with moulded gilt brass skirt set on a circular marble plinth, (barometer mechanism lacking, thermometers replaced). 47.5cm (18.75ins) high, 19cm (7.5ins) wide, 18cm (7ins) deep. Andre Romain Guilmet was born on the 10th of December 1827 in La Ferte-Gaucher, France. He was a credited as a watchmaker and inventor who specialised in producing novelty and mystery clocks for which he applied for a number of patents for designs. Amongst his other Patents was that for a bicycle where the driving chain was set below the seat. He is best known for his 'mysterieuse' figural clock with glass pendulum, this takes the form of a woman holding pendulum in her outstretched hand and arm over a marble base containing the clock below. The pendulum is impulsed by the mechanism underneath her that moves the figure imperceptibly from side to side (see following lot). Guilmet's industrial series of clocks, which includes the current lot, features automated clocks in the form of windmills, lighthouses, automobiles, boats, steam hammers, boilers, etc.; another 'windmill' automaton timepiece from this series is illustrated in Roberts, Derek Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, figure 22-28.
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