A traditional, monumental, Louis XIV table or mantel clock, often and confusingly called „pendule réligieuse“. The massive rectangular movement, signed on the backplate and upon the dial „Clouzier à Paris“, having 24-day duration on springs, with a verge escapement to a thread suspended pendulum, striking the whole hours on 1 bell, and striking the quarter-hours on 2 bells, both striking systems having individual outside locking plates on the backplate of the movement. The cast dial is chased, and having enamal „cartouches“ for black Roman hour ciphers, with engraved minutes fully numbered from 1 to 60 and blued steel hands. The complete dial still retains its original gilding. The wooden case with Contre-Boulle marquetry in brass and tortoiseshell. Height 58 cm. Circa 1705.