Complication “portique” clock, Pillard in Troyes

Rare four-dial skeleton clock with complication, portico signed by the clockmaker Pillard in Troyes on the enamelled central dial with Roman and Arabic numerals. Ring balance, pin escapement and central second hand. Upper moon phase dial and two small lower dials.

Size: H 41cm x W 20cm

Signed under the central dail for the clockmaker Pillard in Troyes (France).

Carefully cleaned by our master clockmaker (dismantling, cleaning, reassembly, oiling), this masterpiece is in perfect working order.

The particularity of the skeleton clock is to let see its mechanism on the reverse and through its openwork dial. Heir to the gantry clock, it is usually composed of an arch supporting one or more dials. This form was a great success in the last years of the eighteenth century and into the first half of the nineteenth century because of the desire of watchmakers to demonstrate their mastery, technical progress, as well as in response to the decorative overload of figurative clocks.