A 20th-Century Swiss gilt-brass, red and green marble mantel clock with calendar, barometer and thermometer by Vevey,
A 20th-Century Swiss gilt-brass, red and green marble mantel clock with calendar, barometer and thermometer by Vevey,

the dials suspended between faceted red marble columns with green marble ball finials, on a stepped square base inset with a green marble panel to each side, the main dial with Roman chapter ring and blued-steel moon hands, the silvered centre with subsidiary rings for day, month, date and phases of moon, the latter also inscribed VEVEY within a shield and Melega-Corbaz, with battery operated quartz movement, two further dials below for centigrade thermometer and barometer, the lowest dial with outer twenty-four hour ring and inner zodiac and calendar rings, with revolving moon showing phases to the centre, also with battery movement, under glass dome, the clock - 13½in. (34.5cm.) high See Colour Illustration

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A 20th-Century Swiss gilt-brass, red and green marble mantel clock with calendar, barometer and thermometer by Vevey,
the dials suspended between faceted red marble columns with green marble ball finials, on a stepped square base inset with a green marble panel to each side, the main dial with Roman chapter ring and blued-steel moon hands, the silvered centre with subsidiary rings for day, month, date and phases of moon, the latter also inscribed VEVEY within a shield and Melega-Corbaz, with battery operated quartz movement, two further dials below for centigrade thermometer and barometer, the lowest dial with outer twenty-four hour ring and inner zodiac and calendar rings, with revolving moon showing phases to the centre, also with battery movement, under glass dome, the clock - 13½in. (34.5cm.) high

See Colour Illustration