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Lot Essay
The engraving to the case and dial on this clock is particularly fine. A comparable silver coach watch, by Champelon, with similar engraving to this watch is in the Louvre Museum Collection, Paris and is illustrated, Catherine Cardinal, Les Montres et Horloges da Table du Musée du Louvre volume II, Paris, 2000, p. 120, catalogue No. 111. A further watch, by Louis Baronneau, with a comparable engraved dial is in the same collection and also illustrated, op. cit., p. 119, catalogue No. 110.
French striking coach watches are unusual and, as with the present watch, most have been upgraded from hog's hair regulation to a spring regulated balance. Watches were highly prized and expensive objects and an owner would have his watch up graded with a modern balance rather than run to the expense of purchasing a new one.
French striking coach watches are unusual and, as with the present watch, most have been upgraded from hog's hair regulation to a spring regulated balance. Watches were highly prized and expensive objects and an owner would have his watch up graded with a modern balance rather than run to the expense of purchasing a new one.