A French Great Exhibition small engraved brass skeleton timepiece with alarm

MID 19TH CENTURY

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A French Great Exhibition small engraved brass skeleton timepiece with alarm
Mid 19th Century
With florally engraved front frame, the base plate stamped MS. HONORABLES/EXP./PARIS. LONDRES, the white enamel chapter ring with silvered alarm-setting disc to centre operated with a cord, the eight day single barrel movement with anchor escapement and silk suspension, pull-wind alarm on campana bell to the ebonised plinth, under glass dome; pendulum, winding key
9 in. (23 cm.) high, 10¼ in. (26 cm.) high over dome

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, Pennsylvania, 1989, pp.102-103, figs.90-93.
F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, NAG Press, London, 1969, p.69, fig.4-7.

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