A gilt brass striking carriage clock with automaton singing bird, uncut bimetallic balance to lever platform, strike/repeat/alarm on bell on backplate, white enamel Roman chapter disc with blued moon hands, alarm disc below and within foliate engraved gilt mask, elaborate foliate cast two-tier case, the automaton bird on naturalistic base moving up and down and from side to side by connecting rods to going barrel movement in base driving cams to the rods and bellow, singing on the hour or at will by a lever to side of base