Thermometer and second hand
A Frech Table clock with nicely inlaid mahogany wooden case. Special is the decentral second hand at the place of the twelve.
The mercury thermometer is in excellent condition.
Fire gilded lunette. The dial is signed with 'Raingo, Fres, a Paris'.
The dial and the plate of the thermometer are both newly silver plated.
Dating: ca. 1820 -1830, Charles X period.
Height 46 cm, wide 18 cm, depth 14 cm.
From www.clockswatches.com. "Raingo Freres was a Parisian clockmaking firm of the 19th century, founded by Z. Raingo who worked in Ghent & Paris." The firm made many types of clocks from Astronomical clocks and orrerys (*) to conventional domestic clocks such as mantel, wall and carriage clocks. Z Raingo is believed to have fled from France in his early years for political reasons. He worked in Gand in Belgium for some time and has a fine orrery clock attributed to him as being made in the Gand in 1810.
He was recorded as being clockmaker at the Duc de Chartres in 1823. He started to make clerics about 1810, The earlier clocks carried the name of Antide Janvier, who made the movements. In 1815, Raingo patented his designs for an orrery and published them in 1823. The patent describes a clock with moving spheres and is one of many patents that he registered.
During the period of 1820-30 he is known to have produced a series of about a boxes of similar astronomical clocks. Many of these clocks can be found in large collections today. The firm of Raingo Freres was trading in the Rue Vielle di Temple in Paris in 1829, and continued until after 1900. The firm is also known at Rue de Saintonge between 1840-50. Raingo Freres exhibited at the International Exhibition in London in 1862 "
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