Raingo

* 5 1/2" gilt engine-turned dial, signed Raingo à Paris with milled bezel, blue steel Breguet-style time hands and blued steel double ended hand for day and planetary symbol * bell striking movement with anchor escapement and front-mounted gridiron pendulum with knife edge suspension, the time train with indirect drive from the clock movement to the Orerry, or manually by means of an ivory-handle crank key * the sun at the center flanked by two horizontal silvered dials for the four year cycle and the lunar date, the earth and the moon mounted above the lunar dial, the terrestrial globe surmounted by a 2x12 hours ring, the Orrery train with seperately wound spring barrel for assisting the drive, the whole revolving against an annual ring calibrated with the Gregorian calendar on the inner ring and the Revolutionary calendar from 1-30 for each month on the outer ring * with the circular temple case with ormolu signs of the zodiac correctly positioned around the annual calendar on a ground of mahogany with stylized leaf ormolu border, the upper section supported by four pillars rising from a mahogany circular base, similarly decorated with mahogany leaf and flower trellis ormolu borders

With 2 keys. The clock is fully wound and not running nor striking and will require cleaning. The orrerry is also fully wound. The indirect drive is disconnected and will need to be reconnected. Cosmetically in good condition, later acryllic dome.
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Zacharie Raingo (1775-1847) is chiefly remembered for a series of fine Orrery clocks. It seems that he first made a clock of this type in 1810, possibly in collaboration with Antide Janvier. He applied for a patent for his system for displaying the movement of globes in 1815 and published it in 1823, under the title 'Description d'une Pendule à Sphere Mouvante'.

Clockwork models of the solar system are known as 'Orrerys' after Charles Boyle, Fourth Earl of Orrery (1676- 1731) for whom one was made.

A Raingo Orrery clock is in the British Royal Collection and was purchased by King George IV in 1824. See Jagger, Royal Clocks, pp. 168-170.

There are approximately 30 Raingo Orrery clocks known in Europe. For the most part, the surviving pieces are housed in either royal collections or museums, including: 
* Windsor Castle, London (purchased by King George IV)
* Le Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
* The Sir John Soane Museum, London (purchased by King George IV and given to the Duke of York)
* El Museo de Colecciones Reales, Madrid
* Le Musée des Arts et Mètiers, Paris (completed by Paul Garnier)
* The Science Museum, London
* The Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
* Il Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
* The Major Paul M. Chamberlain Collection