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Tesson/Reclus. A French brass mantel timepiece with electrical switching contacts, early 20th century
With white enamel dial signed DISTRIBUTEUR ÉLECTRIQUE/BTÉ S.G.D.G./TESSON/HORLOGER, eight day single barrel movement numbered 9073, with Brocot dead beat escapement and mercury pendulum, the period contact by Victor Reclus; with later columns and ebonised plinth, under glass dome -- 17 in. (43 cm.) high
With white enamel dial signed DISTRIBUTEUR ÉLECTRIQUE/BTÉ S.G.D.G./TESSON/HORLOGER, eight day single barrel movement numbered 9073, with Brocot dead beat escapement and mercury pendulum, the period contact by Victor Reclus; with later columns and ebonised plinth, under glass dome -- 17 in. (43 cm.) high
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