Mantel clock - Michelez a Paris - Ormolu - First half 19th century

Adonis I, Empire France clock, 1805, excellent chisel and mercury gilding, Michelez / Rue St. Honore No. 128 dial in Paris, overhauled and fully functional mechanism with wire pendulum, equipped with bell, pendulum and key for winding 1 week, doorbell every half hour. The mythological legend tells that Adonis was a beautiful young hunter, of whom Venus falls in love, arousing the jealousy and anger of Mars, who turns into a boar to kill Adonis. From the tears of Venus on the blood of her beloved, the anemone is born! The symbols contained in the clock well represent and illustrate the allegory of this legend. The dial is signed by Michellez, known as a famous watchmaker of the time, for the precision of the pendulum mechanism.