A remarkable late 19th century French 'Pendule Geo-Cosmographique'

The globe signed E. Bartaux, Rue de Serpente 25, Paris.

The globe signed E. Bartaux, Rue de Serpente 25, Paris.
Contained in a glazed mahogany case with applied ebonised mouldings, the front door over a drawer and reeded part-ebonised tapering supports.

The rectangular wooden dial plate set with five enamel dials, an enamel day-aperture a pocket globe and a map of the Northern Hemisphere, all geared together to offer a range of calendrical and world time information. A pocket globe signed E. Bartaux, Rue de Serpente 25, Paris is set to the top framed by a vertical 24-hour chapter ring with 12 white and 12 blue numerals to indicate day and night over a hemispherical meshed lower section. The main time dial sits below and is signed Pendule Geo-Cosmographique Universell with blued steel moon hands over four further subsidiary dials giving the leap year, the Dominical letter and Solar circle, information on how to adjust the moonphase (dated 1879), and another to give the Epact and Golden Number up to the year 2100, all sitting above the large multi coloured map with outer printed calendar and zodiac scale below another vertical chapter ring of 12 white and 12 blue Roman numerals in brass and silvered cartouches, further set with a small rolling moon.

The clock movement with steel plates, (its wheels running in brass bushes), set over a further steel plate and a pair of skeletonised brass plates carrying the various drives, bevel gearing and motion work for the remaining dials, all within an open wooden framework, the pendulum with off-set crutch suspended below, striking the hours on a coiled steel gong. 2.02m (6ft 8ins) high