Case with a few tiny slate flakes, dirty, and with some loss of polish, would improve with careful cleaning, areas around mounts with gold paint residue, also cleanable, mounts with touch ups and losses to gilding, bezel good, glass with a few minor scratches, dial a bit dirty and with minor scratches, hands with some oxidation, globe stand with substantial loss to gilding, turned baluster form support with crack near base, globe leans slightly forward, equatorial ring dark, may originally have been silvered, cartouches dirty, and with minor losses to numerals, globe with darkened shellac and dirt, minor areas of loss to lithograph surface, time at Paris indicator with broken tip, Antipode indicator tip also missing, rear door does not snap shut, movement ticks but does not strike, dirty, would benefit from service, globe drive train intact and functional, bell and pendulum replaced, Today a businessman can Google world time and see the time anywhere on earth, however 130 years ago, a globe clock was the only alternative for a man needing this information. Overall a good example. Ht 18".
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Edouard Serin, Paris, France, mantel clock with moon phase display and surmounted by a terrestrial globe on gilt stand, The black slate case with gilt brass mounts and incised line decoration, gilt bezel with beveled glass, blued steel hands, Roman numeral white enamel dial with central moon phase display, and signed "Decultot Epernay".. The stand above with equatorial ring mounted with 24 Roman numeral cartouches indicating AM/ PM hours at any point on the earth, globe mounted with a steel pointer indicating the current time in Paris, the opposite side with silver indicator marked "Antipode de Paris", and also with label marked "Edouard Serin Brevete S.G.D.C. Paris", and with his trade mark, 8 days, time and strike, movement which also serves to rotate the globe, square plate movement also with the trade mark of Edouard Serin, c1880 Case with a few tiny slate flakes, dirty, and with some loss of polish, would improve with careful cleaning, areas around mounts with gold paint residue, also cleanable, mounts with touch ups and losses to gilding, bezel good, glass with a few minor scratches, dial a bit dirty and with minor scratches, hands with some oxidation, globe stand with substantial loss to gilding, turned baluster form support with crack near base, globe leans slightly forward, equatorial ring dark, may originally have been silvered, cartouches dirty, and with minor losses to numerals, globe with darkened shellac and dirt, minor areas of loss to lithograph surface, time at Paris indicator with broken tip, Antipode indicator tip also missing, rear door does not snap shut, movement ticks but does not strike, dirty, would benefit from service, globe drive train intact and functional, bell and pendulum replaced, Today a businessman can Google world time and see the time anywhere on earth, however 130 years ago, a globe clock was the only alternative for a man needing this information. Overall a good example. Ht 18".
