The pavilion case is of gilt brass with windows and a back door. It contains the movement and the dial of the table clock or desk clock. The dial and movement are typical of the mouvements de Paris (Paris-type pendulum movements), with Brocot escapement and Brocot pendulum regulator. The hours and half-hours chime has a regulator. The back plate carries the mark of the S. Marti & C.ie factory in Montbéliard, in the French Jura region. From the sides protrude the controls for regulating the attachments to the terrestrial globe. These include the plate, composed of a crystal disk with a gilt brass ring that displays markings for the days and months; the ring completes one revolution in a year. Missing are an index and upright circle that, together with the globe movements, the calendar circle and the hours display, provided much information including: the time at different meridians, the time equation, darkness and light areas, angle of solar declination, weather effects of the Sun's path between the two solstices, and calendar indications. The globe's southern hemisphere is inscribed "Pendule Cosmographique Mouret B.té S.G.D.G. France & Etranger Ch. Henard & C.ie à Paris." The cosmographic pendulum clock was first put on sale in 1876. S.G.D.G. means Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement: French patents were officially issued, but it was up to the patentee to prove that the device was actually an invention. On February 12, 1877, Charles Hénard, from Paris, and Étienne Lasnier filed a patent for a cosmographic pendulum clock that was certainly the same model released the previous year.