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A closely related night clock, with a nearly identical ormolu cresting and stamped 'FONCK A BERNE' is illustrated in, Hermann von Fischer, Fonck a Berne, Bern, 2001, p. 136, pl. 268.
A rare eighteenth-century form, this 'pendule veilleuse' or night clock was made readable in darkness with the use of back-illumination and pierced numerals and pointer. For a closely related model with a Swiss movement, similar chapter ring and leaf-molded cabriole legs, see P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 152, fig. A.
A rare eighteenth-century form, this 'pendule veilleuse' or night clock was made readable in darkness with the use of back-illumination and pierced numerals and pointer. For a closely related model with a Swiss movement, similar chapter ring and leaf-molded cabriole legs, see P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 152, fig. A.