The subject of this clock illustrates the episode in which Jupiter thunders Phaeton who wants to check if he is the son of the Sun, (Helios). Phaeton then asks his father to let him drive his chariot. Terrified by the height and the sky, Phaeton then leaves the road drawn and descends so low that it causes the burning of the Earth. The maddened stars complain to Jupiter who is striking the tank and Phaeton. "The terrified horses leap in the opposite,
The large circular movement with pin-wheel escapement mounted on the backplate, the pendulum crutch with fine-screw beat adjustment, and outside countwheel strike on a bell, the canthmechanism showing seconds with original hands.
The bronzier Pierre-Etienne ROMAIN (1765- after 1821) deposits the drawing of a Clock representing the same subject in the cabinet of drawings of the National Library in March 1800. 
Related works The Mobilier National keeps three clocks representing this subject - The one found at the Tuileries Palace in 1809- another at Ministry of Foreign Affairs  - The third at the Palace of Saint Cloud in 1818, then at the Elysée Palace. 

Litterature: "Vergldete Bronzen" Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Munich 1986, p.355, No. 5.9.4. O2 675 p.211  Cf: "The Hour, the Fire, the Light, the Bronzes of the National Furniture 1800-1870" Marie-France Dupuis-Baylet 2010 Faton Ed. P.26