Antique Industrial series desk weather station of mautical style. Set upon a shaped griotte marble base with gilt bronze plate below. The fine anchor in silvered bronze with carrying loop and a farenheit and centigrade thermomenter with engraved silver plate to the stem. Set on the point of each anchor fluke in a gilt bronze drum case is an aneroid thermometer on the left and an 8 day clock with lever escapement on the right. Each of the drum cases is encircled by a thick twist of rope in gilt bronze and then attached by finer twists of rope to the anchor bar and its flukes. Superb original condition. France circa 1895. 9.25 inches high by 6.25 inches wide by 3 inches deep ( 23.125 cm by 15.62 cm by 7.5 cm).