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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin should be acknowledged as one of the most intelligent men of the nineteenth century, along with Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Edgar Poe or Thomas Edison. The passion of this unparalleled inventor was illusionism. In 1839, aged 34, he performed the synthesis of watchmaking and magic by inventing the mystery clock. Some of them are sometimes seen in French auctions. It is a cloc…