$2,950
“Old World Map and Star Chart” Atmos Clock Jaeger-LeCoultre, Swiss, Ref. 526-5. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, rectangular, gilt brass mantel clock with “old world map and star chart” panels and wound by barometric changes. Combined old world map and star chart on the two sides, star chart on the top, transparent back. The front panel shows a star chart and a famous astronomer at each corner, has an aperture to view the pendulum and a stepped plinth base. White with applied gilt faceted dart indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Gilt “dauphine” hands. Cal. 526-5, gilt brass, vacuum chamber winding the going barrel, lever-escapement driven by annular tension pendulum, locking screw in the base below the pendulum disc. Case, movement and vacuum signed. Dim. 12 cm (width) x 16.5 cm (length) x 21.5 cm (height). Notes The design of this Atmos clock incorporates images inspired by both a map of the world and a star chart from the 16th century. The map of the world depicted on the side panels was taken from Dutch mapmaker Abraham Ortelius` (1527 -1598) world map for the atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”. Meanwhile, some of the star chart images are based on a wood cutting by German artist and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Dürer’s wood cutting was based on observations of German astronomers of the time. As in Dürer`s image, the clock depicts four famous astronomers in the corner of the front panel: Aratus Cilix, Ptolemeus Aegyptus, Marcus Manilius and Addorhama
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07
