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The "improved" Clockwork Globe by the Abbé Réginald Outhier (1694-1774) of Besançon, signed and dated on the meridian ring: “INVENIT D. R. OUTHIER. FECIT JOAN. BAPT. CATTIN APUD SEQUANOS. PROBAVIT REGIA SCIENT. ACADEMIA PARIS. AN 1727" and on the movement: "J. B. Cattin au Fort du Plâne en Franche Comte"
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The clocks described on the Archive pages are no longer available for sale.
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“Le mesme globe perfectionné
et presenté en MDCCXXXI... |
On its stand, the globe is 37 cm (14.5 in.) high. The globe itself is 16.5 cm [6.5 in.] in diameter.
The mechanism is concealed inside a copper globe with applied paper gores engraved with the constellations and prominent stars. Two of the gores have been replaced with manuscript facsimiles. To make the globe portable, the movement was converted to balance wheel and a Debaufre [chaff cutter] escapement, c. 1790. Its appearance was further "modernized" with an enamel dial. The original chapter ring was silvered brass. The stand is recent.
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