Peacock clock horloge du paon Ermitage museum St Petersburg Tchasi Pavlin

Peacock clock horloge du paon Ermitage museum St Petersburg 18th made by James Cook an english clock maker and sold to Potemkin (favorit of the queen Cahterine the great) in spare parts. It took 9 years for a russian mecanic Ivan Kulibin to put them up together again. Well worth it. It works only once a year during the withe nights in June to preserve the mechanism so you have very few chance to see it work. But what a treat then !
Made of guilded bronze silver & glass, height 3 meters. The dial of the clock is into the head fo the mushroom with a dragonfly moving on top (at the foot of the tree)
Horloge crée par james Cook un horloger anglais et vendue en pièces détachées à Potemkin faroris de la grande Catherine. Un mécanisien russe Ivan Kulibin mis 9 ans a la remonter , elle ne fonctionne qu'un fois par an en Juin durant les nuits blanches pour préserver son mécanisme. C'est le seul grand automate du 18th qui nous soit parvenu en état de marche. Une merveille un peu grande pour mettre dans le salon de Mr tout-le-monde, mais quel régal de la voir fonctionner. Fait en bronze doré, argent & verre, hauteur 3m. Le cadran de l'horloge est dans la tête du champignon avec une libellule sur le dessus qui bouge également (au pied de l'arbre)
I ve just discovered a new automaton working every day at 2 pm, made by James Cox the Silver Swan in North of England Bowes Museum. Type Silver swan automaton & see some videos ont the subject
Je viens de découvrir un nouvel automate en état de marche fait aussi par James Cox le cygne d'argent au nord de l'Angleterre Bowes Museum. tapez Silver swan automaton pour voir les qlq vidéos sur ce sujet

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[nemielas]

saw it at Hermitage visiting St Petersburg some time ago. the whole museum is worth seeing but this clock was just BREATH TAKING!!!

[remyposees]

@nemielas well i thought the same but could not find a good record of it on Youtube, mine although not perfect is the best i could found up to now so that is why i posted it. Everybody should be able to see such an achievement and since it works only once a year you'll very few chances to see it for yourself in the museum

[Lumpenherz]

Das Video ist sehr gut. Gefällt mir sehr gut!

Danke!

[remyposees]

@Lumpenherz danke ihnen, i bin froh das dieses video hat dir gefällt i habe ihre videos auch über das ermitage museum gesehen und die sind gut, es war ein vergnügen

[etrax2000]

@remyposees ..and all the fates that occued a hundred years ago are starting to re-emerge, with countries collapsing financially and private citizens whose pockets are bulging are waiting to pounce on them.

[etrax2000]

@remyposees There are more peole out there with uniomaginable amounts of wealth. they couold certainly aford to maintain these iems, not to mention that purchasing overseas art is both a tax incentive and personal triumph. Also rememebr that most of thse trweasures were stolen from private collectors. Even the masterpieces oft he Roamanoffs and such were "gently nudged" away from the private Russian citizens of years gone b yand also imagine if you will, that this is the year 1911.

[remyposees]

@etrax2000 i agree with you but unless you are Bill Gates or Rockefelfer few individual could afford to buy them and pay the maintenance costs too, and then you would not be allowed anymore to see them they would be private properties. That is why they are better in a museum for everybody to see of course the musuem is supposed to maintain it properply (which is not always the case unfortunately) remember too that as a citizen you pay with your taxes the maintenance of such works of art

[etrax2000]

@remyposees Most museuems have a short view of holding onto objects long after they can no longer provide the needed funds to conserve them. Russia has lots of money, but it is not being used to conserve their treasures. Thousands of churches are falling apart (, physically and spiritually ) and if Russia can not preserve or conserv..e then they should sell ther items to those who can take care of them.

[remyposees]

@etrax2000 i suppose yes but it is made of guilded bronze, and restoration of such a masterpiece must cost a lot of money and rather delicate because of the mechanism and as you know museum are always short of money. But as it is i still think it is a miracle it made it from 1770 up to now, remember it is the only huge automaton left from this time.

[etrax2000]

it could use a lot of refurbishing replating with gold and such.