Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A similar clock, numbered 580 is illustrated in Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer 1993, p.223, fig.13-27.
With the fly-back calendar, a pointer moves down a vertical scale daily. On Sunday at midnight the pointer 'flies back' to Monday. Derek Roberts suggests that the similarities between the the scales on the known examples of this relatively unusual calendar work on carriage clocks leads to the conclusion that they are products of the same hand. The clocks which Derek Roberts illustrates are attributed by him to Victorien Boseet and it is likely that Bousset and Boseet are synonymous.
A similar clock, numbered 580 is illustrated in Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer 1993, p.223, fig.13-27.
With the fly-back calendar, a pointer moves down a vertical scale daily. On Sunday at midnight the pointer 'flies back' to Monday. Derek Roberts suggests that the similarities between the the scales on the known examples of this relatively unusual calendar work on carriage clocks leads to the conclusion that they are products of the same hand. The clocks which Derek Roberts illustrates are attributed by him to Victorien Boseet and it is likely that Bousset and Boseet are synonymous.