With the prospect of the tercentenary of the coronation of Louis XV, the “Beloved” that Versailles will honor at the end of next year, the château is entrusting specialists with its most famous and complex pendulum made for him.
On December 13, in fact, thanks to a patronage from Rolex, this fascinating object, as large as a man and with a curiously anthropomorphic shape, designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant, will leave its original location, at the entrance to the king's office. , to stay as long as it takes at the Louvre, in the armored spaces of the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.
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In Versailles, Louis XV's corner cabinet regains its luster
The exterior in gilded bronze, enamel, steel, copper and glass, a masterpiece of rock art by sculptors Jacques and Philippe Caffieri, as well as the mechanism have not been cleaned or revised since 1954. Unique in world, this mechanism is in such a state of wear that many indications no longer work, and its main motor movement ceases to function.
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