Clock Mythologique "leda And The Swan"

Magnificent mythological clock of high manufacture in mercury-gilded bronze, from the Napoleon III period. Mythological scene of Leda and the swan intertwined in a landscape of rushes and flowers by a large facade housing the white enamel dial.


"Zeus, seeing Leda, the wife of the king of Sparta Tyndareus, bathing in the river Euratos, desired her. To get closer, he conceived the ruse of asking Aphrodite to change into an eagle and pretend to pursue him , himself transformed into a swan, Leda took the poor frightened swan into her arms, and Zeus took the opportunity to unite with her. But the same day, Leda had loved her husband, and two eggs resulted from these unions, each containing. two children: Castor and Pollux and Helen (of Troy) and Clytemnestra, For Homer, all the children are from Tyndareus: For the poet Callimachus, only Helen is the child of Zeus whom he had with the goddess Nemesis. changed into a goose, and himself into an eagle. The egg resulting from this union was entrusted to Leda who raised Helene as her daughter.

Original mechanism without modification, hour and half hour strike on old bell.


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