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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
Paul Garnier, 1801-1869 was one of France's most celebrated horologists and experimented with electrical horology as early as 1847 when he took out his first electric horological patent pour une horloge électrique dispersant l'action électrique à un nombre illimité d'horloges.
This extremely rare clock is one of only a handful made by Garnier at this time and it represents a milestone in Garnier's formulation of his patent of 1847. This form of contact system is perhaps not surprisingly related to other systems that were being experimented with in France at the time; the examples in this collection include the Lerebours & Secretan master clock (lot 409) and the Detouche/Robert-Houdin pendulum clock (lot 398)
Paul Garnier first exhibited his electrical patent in the 1849 Paris Exhibition and received the Gold Medal. So successful were they that even as early as 1855 the Lille railway station had been equipped by Paul Garnier with electrically propelled dials driven by minute impulses.
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
Paul Garnier, 1801-1869 was one of France's most celebrated horologists and experimented with electrical horology as early as 1847 when he took out his first electric horological patent pour une horloge électrique dispersant l'action électrique à un nombre illimité d'horloges.
This extremely rare clock is one of only a handful made by Garnier at this time and it represents a milestone in Garnier's formulation of his patent of 1847. This form of contact system is perhaps not surprisingly related to other systems that were being experimented with in France at the time; the examples in this collection include the Lerebours & Secretan master clock (lot 409) and the Detouche/Robert-Houdin pendulum clock (lot 398)
Paul Garnier first exhibited his electrical patent in the 1849 Paris Exhibition and received the Gold Medal. So successful were they that even as early as 1855 the Lille railway station had been equipped by Paul Garnier with electrically propelled dials driven by minute impulses.