Breguet Neveu & Comp.ie No.5100: A gilt brass sonnerie striking carriage clock, the massive going barrel movement having duplex escapement with cut bimetallic balance on large gilt platform, the backplate planted with grande sonnerie rack-and-snail work striking on two U-shaped gongs, alarm on bell in the base, wound through the dial with signed silvered engraved Roman chapter disc with blued Breguet hands and silvered alarm hand, within foliate engraved gilt mask, with levers for sonnerie/silence between I and II and quarts/hres. & quarts between X and XI, plain corniche style case with large carrying handle to top with buttons for trip repeat, alarm hand and pull wind alarm, original numbered red leather travelling case with handle and repeat button shutter to top

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Breguet Neveu & Comp.ⁱe No.5100: A gilt brass sonnerie striking carriage clock, the massive going barrel movement having duplex escapement with cut bimetallic balance on large gilt platform, the backplate planted with grande sonnerie rack-and-snail work striking on two U-shaped gongs, alarm on bell in the base, wound through the dial with signed silvered engraved Roman chapter disc with blued Breguet hands and silvered alarm hand, within foliate engraved gilt mask, with levers for sonnerie/silence between I and II and quarts/hres. & quarts between X and XI, plain corniche style case with large carrying handle to top with buttons for trip repeat, alarm hand and pull wind alarm, original numbered red leather travelling case with handle and repeat button shutter to top
7½in. (19cm.) high (2)

Literature

Allix and Bonnert, Carriage Clocks, p.53

Lot Essay

Sold Sotheby's, The property of a Lady, 5 July 1966, for 920 gns. The certificate, No. 3059, dated Paris, 15 May 1954, has sadly since been mislai. The inventory in Allix, Carriage Clocks, dates the clock to 1834

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