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Details
A French gilt-brass grande sonnerie carriage clock with chronometer escapement, sweep seconds, calendar and alarm, mid 19th century
The case elaborately cast with birds, flowers and rocaille, with conforming solid rear door, the white enamel Roman dial with subsidiary dials for day of week/alarm/date, with three-position sonnerie adjustment hand above, blued steel moon hands and sweep centre seconds, the eight day twin barrel movement with silvered platform to chronometer escapement with plain bimetallic balance and blued steel helical spring, strike/repeat/alarm on two nested bells to back plate stamped BOLVILLER/à Paris and numbered 139 -- 7in. (18cm.) high to fold of handle
The case elaborately cast with birds, flowers and rocaille, with conforming solid rear door, the white enamel Roman dial with subsidiary dials for day of week/alarm/date, with three-position sonnerie adjustment hand above, blued steel moon hands and sweep centre seconds, the eight day twin barrel movement with silvered platform to chronometer escapement with plain bimetallic balance and blued steel helical spring, strike/repeat/alarm on two nested bells to back plate stamped BOLVILLER/à Paris and numbered 139 -- 7in. (18cm.) high to fold of handle
Provenance
French Carriage Clocks from an Important Private Collection, Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1997, lot 94.
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