A small clock, usually fitted with a handle, designed to be moved from place to place in the house, like an English bracket clock. Pendule portative is in no way synonymous with pendule de voyage. The clock made by Robert Robin, which is believed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette may be considered a pendule portative, but its leather case clearly marks it as a travelling clock. But an astronomer's clock made in 1795 by Ferdinand Berthoud, in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, shows a brass carrying handle for what is essentially a working, and normally static, clock.