Importante Pendule Néo-cathédrale En Bronze Argenté- XIXeme

Important Neo-Cathedral pendulum in silvered bronze richly worked with arcades and fenestrations
discover a dial in its center, the top damping decorated with a bell topped with a finial.
Plinth base on a guilloché background.
Movement of Planchon in Paris.
Mid-nineteenth century.

History:
Mathieu Planchon (1842-1931), watchmaker at the Palais Royal, came from a family of watchmakers in Bourges. Once his apprenticeship had been completed, among others with the great illusionist Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, he settled in Paris at the Montpensier gallery at the Palais Royal from 1870 to 1921. At the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900, he wrote the reports of his pendulums. His production consisted essentially of curious clocks, from which he drew a few models from the watchmaker Nicolas Grollier de Servière.
Our clock is part of the curiosities that Mathieu Planchon liked to imagine, and which made its success.