682 - A rare table clock with perpetual calendar in the Empire style

A rare table clock with perpetual calendar in the Empire style Fire-gilt bronze/brass, domed clear glass, granite base, white enamel dial, blued hands, steel. Eight-day movement with chain and fusee, and verge escapement. Five indications for the time, day of the week, date, month and age of the moon surrounding a small central display of the corresponding zodiac sign. The movement housed in a glass cylinder with closed back, mounted on a vase-shaped pedestal supported on three winged paw feet. Monogrammed "L.B.f." on the reverse of the dial for Louis Buzat fecit. Height 25.9, diameter 13 cm. Late 18th C. The Geneva-born Louis Buzat, a producer of clock dials, was recruited in 1780 by Louis Truitte, the "directeur des fabriques d'horlogerie de Berlin et de Friedrichsthal". In 1782, he took over the management of the supplier manufactory in Friedrichsthal near Oranienburg, and later that of the main manufactory in Berlin, until he established his own business in Berlin in 1793. Provenance Paris art market.