Polished Hardwood case, 2cm thick white marble backplateMovement:
Size: 16.8 inches high. 8.5 inches wide, 5 inches deep.
Brillié electrically driven mechanism which runs from a single dry cell (1.5 volts, no more!). The original cell had an electrolyte of silver chloride and is no longer available, a Duracell is used in its place. The pendulum carries a specially shaped magnet and has a heavy spherical metal bob.Notes:
The Brillié is produced for the domestic or office market but is similar in style to the Brillié master clocks.
The clock shown here is a typical Brillié domestic clock which does not have connections for slave clocks. There are also four glass versions which are especially collectable and attractive.
Brillié clocks are not often found in England (where I live) but were very popular in France, where they developed from a clock invented by Charles Féry in 1908. The Brillie Bros, with Charles Le Roy developed a system based on Féry's clock for the Paris Observatory in 1910. The shape of the magnet was modified to give a more uniform magnetic field, this modification was due to Marius Lavet who later designed the first transistor switched clock for ATO.
The small bars of soft iron near the coil act as regulators.