Perpetual Mobile Machine signed Touchard Paris ca. 1860
Dimensions: H64 x W64.5 x D25 cm.
In working condition and beautiful finished steel.
On a blackened wooden base, the glass dome is missing
About the quest for an eternal self providing energy source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
T. Touchard worked for A.L. Breguet as doreur metalworker.
The clockmakers firm Ruffier, Pauly et Touchard were active in Paris in the Rue Charlot ca. 1880.