Sometimes, extremely rare can really take on all its meaning. This is the case for this superb gilt bronze clock with the allegory "of passing time", using the Chronos imagined and sculpted by Girolamo Campagna (1552-1625) in 1605. 
 This one , the high forehead, the broad cheekbones, the heavy eyelids slightly convex, the large eyes, the straight nose and the small mouth. The modeling of the body, the waist, the slightly heavy hips are also characteristic of this artist.
 The most direct comparison is with the signed bronze statue of Girolamo Campagna in  1605, delivered to Saint Anthony's Abbey in Venice. 

 This magnificent clock is signed "Le Roy horloger de Madame" (for Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon 1st), a signature used by Basile Charles Le Roy between 1805 and 1817.
 This exceptional master watchmaker, probably the most popular of the imperial period, only collaborated with the greatest bronziers: François Rémond (1747 - 1812), Jean André Reiche (1752 - 1817), Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1757 - 1843) and Claude Galle (1759 - 1815). 
 Even if it is "practical and advantageous" to attribute works, my research did not allow me to be able to relate with certainty this magnificent pendulum to one or the other of these bronziers. 

 Very good general condition, with its original gilding. 
 I specify that this one did not receive any cleaning, because in my opinion, it did not need it. 
 However, if the purchaser wishes, it can be done in a suitable way (without aggressive products, risking to alter the gilding). 
 Number N ° 407 engraved on the back of the base as well as on the movement. 

 Empire period. 

 As with most of my art objects and furniture, I am very careful to be able to offer them to you at a very low expert estimate value.

 Basile-Charles Le Roy (1765-1828 ):
 The name of Le Roy is linked to one of the most important dynasties of Parisian watchmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Basile Le Roy was the first watchmaker of the line, but it was his son, Basile-Charles, who was the real founder, becoming master watchmaker in 1785 and creating the same year, under the arcades of the Palais Royal, the workshop which will remain that of the family for more than a century.
 Spirit turned towards innovation, Basile-Charles takes part in international exhibitions, files patents, collaborates for the realization of the cases of his clocks with the best Parisian craftsmen, particularly the bronziers Rémond, Thomire, Galle and Reiche.
 He enjoyed an exceptional career and became a watchmaker to Her Imperial and Royal Highness Madame Mère, to the Emperor, to the King of Westphalia, to Her Imperial Highness Princess Pauline, honorary watchmaker to King Louis XVIII under the Restoration and to the Garde-Meuble of the crown.

 Nowadays, some of the watchmaker's clocks belong to the most important private and public international collections, notably those kept at the Louvre Museum and at the Ministry of War in Paris, at the Paul Dupuy Museum in Toulouse, at the Royal Museums of Art. and History in Brussels and at the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds.