THE DIAL SIGNED BOUCHET HGER DU ROY, CIRCA 1785-1790

With the remarkable feature of twin dials, this pendule d'enfilade was designed to be hung in an enfilade of rooms, thus enabling the time to be told from either side. A closely related clock was sold in these Rooms, 27 May 1999, lot 103 ($69,700). The current clock is an earlier example by Jean Louis Bouchet who was horloger du Roi for the château de Bellevue in 1769, and is recorded as last working on the rue Saint-Martin in 1789.