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Antique 19th Century Neo - Renaissance Gilt Bronze Clock : POET




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Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:66134Style: Renaissance
Original/Reproduction: OriginalAge: 1800-1849
Color: GoldPrimary Material: Bronze
Country/Region of Origin: FranceMaker: Pierre-Cesar Honore Pons
Original Description:
This watch takes us to the era of Renaissance, to the era of chivalry, nobility, sincerity and selfless love... When the noble lord...s did not hesitate to give everything to get recognition from their ladies.Culture/provenance: France / estate in SwedenCreation period:  middle of 19th CenturyMotive and style: Renaissance poet or "Romantic gentleman"Technique (creation media):  Hand chased bronze, Gilt bronze (ormolu, gilded), brown patina, Silver plated dial.Creator: acknow ledged French clock maker Pierre-César Honoré Pons, (1773-1851). Watches and clocks with its mechanisms are located in many museums and private collections around the world.Markings: "Medaille d'Or 1827 Pons"; "Etablissement de Paris"Size in centimeters (metric):  49 cm (H) x 30 cm (W) x 11, 5 cm (D)Measrements in inches (roughly):   19, 4 in (H) x 11, 8 in (W) x 4, 5 in (D)Net weight:     App. 5, 6 kgApp. Gross weight:  7 kgPierre-César Honoré Pons, (1773-1851), is the world famous French watchmaker. Installed first as a dancer in Paris, he is known to have revived the watch industry in Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont. (Normandy). He has signed many chimney pendulum mechanisms.Honoré Pons continues his studies in Paris at the Jesuits and enters apprenticeship at Antide Janvier. In 1798, he worked as a apprentice at the prestigious Lepaute. In 1803, he moved to the rue de la Huchette in Paris, not far from the Place Saint-Michel where the great watchmakers like Berthoud, Breguet and Lépine worked.Honoré Pons repeatedly for his mezanizms for clock receives gold and silver medals at exhibitions. In 1819, he was awarded the Medal of the Legion of Honor.In 1846, seeing his health decline, he sold his workshops to the watchmaker Delépine.An important collection of mechanisms signed Honoré Pons is kept at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, a collection of clocks and pendulettes at the museum of watchmaking Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont.


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