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A Franche Comté gilt-brass quarter-striking and repeating carriage clock with centre seconds, circa 1840
The one piece case with rear door with silk-backed sound frets and shuttered winding holes, foliate scroll engraved silvered dial, Roman chapter ring bisected at XII with a white enamel subsidiary seconds disc, blued steel Breguet hands, signed on a reserve below Enrique Ducommun, the eight day twin barrel with silvered platform for duplex escapement with cut bimetallic balance, with engraved cock, strikework positioned on the back plate, strike/repeat on two nested bells set on the rear door -- 6in. (15.3cm.) high
The one piece case with rear door with silk-backed sound frets and shuttered winding holes, foliate scroll engraved silvered dial, Roman chapter ring bisected at XII with a white enamel subsidiary seconds disc, blued steel Breguet hands, signed on a reserve below Enrique Ducommun, the eight day twin barrel with silvered platform for duplex escapement with cut bimetallic balance, with engraved cock, strikework positioned on the back plate, strike/repeat on two nested bells set on the rear door -- 6in. (15.3cm.) high
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