This Midcentury Asprey-retailed Ormolu French clock is untroubled by the occasion.
The crackle "ice cubes" lucite case, marbled in deep green may look cool and glossy but without drama - the gilt brass detailing provides neo-classical deco structure: a stepped cornice, bun feet, all precisely behaved.
Its French mechanical movement by Ch Hour Lavigne ticks on with steady confidence. Time, after all, was already being handled.
