A French gilt-metal and marble four-glass electric timepiece

BULLE, FRANCE; FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

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A French gilt-metal and marble four-glass electric timepiece
Bulle, France; first quarter 20th century
The case with red veined marble base supporting the glazed gilt-metal four-glass frame with similar marble top, the annular silvered Arabic dial with blued spade hands, the movement of typical form signed on the plates Bulle Clock France No. 125056
14¼ ins. 36.5 cm. high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Science Museum, 15 December, 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976

The Bulle clock was invented by Professor Marcel Moulin and M. Favre Bulle in Paris in 1920.
The company stated that their clocks would run for 800 days on a single cell which were supplied by Bulle themselves. This particular example was model 'L' in the Bulle Clock Company catalogue of 1926