Lot Essay
This clock has the additional feature of striking each hour twice. It does so on the hour and then two minutes later, giving someone who missed the time on the first occasion the opportunity to hear it on the second. This is common on Continental church clocks but not on carriage clocks. Charles Allix writes that it would not be an unusual feature to be found on a clock made near Morez. See Carriage Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club 1974, p.153. External rack-work and pull-wind alarms are typical features of Franche Comté clocks of this period.