Lot 11
11
A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU GRANDE SONNERIE PENDULE D'OFFICIER, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with pierced giltmetal hands and blued steel arrowhead alarm hand, the movement with bridgecock verge escapement on the backplate planted with rack-and-snail work with pull quarter repeat and full-wind alarm, the cast with serpentine handle to ogee top, the sides mounted with berried rosettes and on stud feet

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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU GRANDE SONNERIE PENDULE D'OFFICIER, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with pierced giltmetal hands and blued steel arrowhead alarm hand, the movement with bridgecock verge escapement on the backplate planted with rack-and-snail work with pull quarter repeat and full-wind alarm, the cast with serpentine handle to ogee top, the sides mounted with berried rosettes and on stud feet
9in. (23cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar clock signed Cugnier, Leschot in the Musée d'Horlogerie, la Chaux-de-Fonds, is illustrated C. Allix, Carriage Clocks, Woodbridge, 1974, p.22, fig. 1/28. This type of clock, which preceeded the pendule de voyage, first appeared in France around 1785 and retained its typical form until about 1820.

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