Beauvais — Astronomical Clock of the Beauvaisian Watchmaker Vérité — (1866, Second Empire) this dial indicating the hours, the days, the weeks and the months, the sunrises and sunsets, the lunar phases and the tides, etc. 90,000 parts, 50 animated figures - M. G.

Description

Illustration of a monumental astronomical clock in Beauvais, dated 1866 and attributed to watchmaker Vérité. The complex dial displays the hours, days, weeks, months, lunar phases, tides, sunrises, and sunsets. The reverse mentions the publisher M. G. and specifies that the clock contains 90,000 parts and 50 animated figures.