This clock, with mechanism placed in gilt bronze and glass housing, is of a frequent type at the end of the reign of Louis XVI. These mechanisms often bear the signature of the Lépine or Lepaute watchmakers. They were made by Nicolas Sotiau, master watchmaker in 1782 and who worked for the main Marchand-merciers (French term for a type of entrepreneur working outside the guild system of craftsmen but carefully constrained by the regulations of a corporation under rules codified in 1613) Darnault and Daguerre, using boxes from the bronziers François Rémond and Pierre-Philippe Thomire. This clock probably corresponds to the one delivered for the Cabinet du Conseil de Louis XVI in Château de Saint-Cloud.
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