The Atelier
Horlogerie — Réveil à Poids
The weight-driven alarm, taken apart on paper.
- Work
- Encyclopédie suite “Horlogerie” (Carnavalet impression)
- Maker
- Robert Bénard, after Fossier
- Date
- 18th century
- Held by
- Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content)
- License
- CC0
- Master
- 2730×3702px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
A weight-driven alarm clock, exploded into its parts and engraved with the Encyclopédie's characteristic patience — every wheel, pallet, and cord given its letter, every letter its explanation. The alarm is the oldest complication of all: the clock that does not merely tell time but acts on it, striking a sleeper awake. Here that small mechanical will is anatomized, line by burin line, so that any reader of 1760s France could see exactly how a machine keeps an appointment.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
Horlogerie — Réveil à Poids printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content), served under the institution’s stated license (CC0) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: Musée Carnavalet, Paris (Paris Musées open content) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
