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Tardy (Dictionnaire des Horlogers François, 1971, p.269) records Marie-Albert, Antoine and Joseph Goyffron, all sons of Philibert who were apprenticed at the Manufacture royale in Bourg 1763-1778.
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A LOUIS XVI PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED REGULATEUR DE PARQUET
CIRCA 1775
With circular enamel dial signed Lesfrères Goyffon à la Manufacture... de Bourg en Bresse with roman and arabic chapters, the second hand replaced, with equation of time, endless cord winding, pinwheel escapement, the pendulum suspended from a knife edge seared to cast iron pillars behind the movement, the link between the equation work and time train missing, within a bold foliate-carved case surmounted by a ribbon-entwined berried laurel garland and scrolling cartouches, the tapering stop-fluted panelled case fitted with a later decorated equation scale above egg-and-dart banding and bold volutes suspending floral swags, the canted angles carved with piastres, on foliate-carved fluted plinth, the word 'Royal' obliterated on the dial and fleur-de-lys removed from hands-101in. (257cm.) high, 20½in. (52cm.) wide, 11¾in. (30cm.) deep
CIRCA 1775
With circular enamel dial signed Lesfrères Goyffon à la Manufacture... de Bourg en Bresse with roman and arabic chapters, the second hand replaced, with equation of time, endless cord winding, pinwheel escapement, the pendulum suspended from a knife edge seared to cast iron pillars behind the movement, the link between the equation work and time train missing, within a bold foliate-carved case surmounted by a ribbon-entwined berried laurel garland and scrolling cartouches, the tapering stop-fluted panelled case fitted with a later decorated equation scale above egg-and-dart banding and bold volutes suspending floral swags, the canted angles carved with piastres, on foliate-carved fluted plinth, the word 'Royal' obliterated on the dial and fleur-de-lys removed from hands-101in. (257cm.) high, 20½in. (52cm.) wide, 11¾in. (30cm.) deep