Peacock clock
The peacock clock ( english Peacock Clock ) is a well-built in the 1770s in London machine, the Catherine the Great in 1781 at the instigation of Potemkin by the English watchmaker and luxury goods dealer James Cox bought.
description
The clock is made of bronze and silver, partly gold-plated and decorated with rhinestones . The Russian watchmaker Ivan Petrovich Kulibin is said to have repaired the non-working or no longer working movement. Its clockwork is only started on special occasions. At the full hour the peacock turns a wheel, the rooster crows and the owl turns its head. The peacock clock is now in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yuna Zek, Antonina Balina, Mikhail Guryev, Yuri Semionov: The Peacock Clock ( Memento from February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - photos, history and description of the peacock clock on hermitagemuseum.org (website of the Hermitage )
- ↑ Small Hermitage, upper floor of the north pavilion, room 204
Web links
Commons : Hermitage Peacock clock - collection of images, videos and audio files
