Grand Homme a Versailles Surmounted by a reclining woman protecting a playful child from a flaming torch over an arched cornice with applied motifs of winged putti to the front and a leopard within a garland of grapes to each side, supported on four fluted Corinthian columns with white marble bases, on a black plinth and ormolu feet; the ormolu anthemion-cast bezel with beaded border framing the signed 6.5 inch white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the time shown by a pair of gilt hands with sunburst tips; the months and their astrological signs painted 'en grisaille' shown via a wavy blued steel double-ended hand; the day and its sign shown via a double ended gilt arrow-tipped hand and the date shown by a single blued steel hand, the open centre revealing the calendar work with five-star crossings; the substantial circular movement plates with flattened lower edges, united by 6 large turned pillars, the deadbeat escapement mounted on the backplate, the pendulum crutch with fine screw adjustment to the heavy gridiron pendulum suspended on a substantial bracket and knife-edge above, terminating in a heavy cast sunburst bob with central female mask, the hours stuck on a large bell via an outside countwheel with star crossings, the quarters activated by a smaller outside countwheel and struck on two nested bells of slightly higher tone 61cms (24ins) high (2)