This brooch is inspired by the clock of The Creation of the World, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Invented by Claude-Siméon Passemant, the King's mechanical engineer and a craftsman of genius, the clock of The Creation of the World is one of the greatest masterpieces of precision clock-making in the 18th century. The case of the clock cast in bronze symbolizes through the evocation of the four primordial elements - earth, water, air and fire - the first moments in Genesis that follow on from the emergence of light. Its mechanisms allow one to be aware, in its bottom
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