Of impressive scale, the circular glazed white-enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals signed `Sotiau A PARIS' and twin-barrel movement within a floral-garlanded case surmounted by a leaf-wrapped urn finial with fruiting foliate finial, on ram monopodiae supports, flanked by acanthus-wrapped volute scrolls decorated with flowerheads, on a stepped rectangular breakfront plinth base with beaded edge, centred by a panel decorated with scrolling acanthus, on turned feet, with further laurel trails to the volute scrolls.

The design for this clock was traditionally attributed to the fondeur François Vion. This celebrated model is however perhaps most famously remembered for having been in the collection of Marie-Antoinette and in the apartments of Madame Victoire, daughter of Louis XV, at Versailles where not one but two virtually identical versions of this clock once stood.

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