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A Charles X ormolu striking lyre clock with integral swinging pendulum
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A Charles X ormolu striking lyre clock with integral swinging pendulum

CIRCA 1830

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A Charles X ormolu striking lyre clock with integral swinging pendulum
Circa 1830
The case columns terminating in fruiting baskets flanked by cockerel heads suspending pinecone drops, with Apollo mask cresting concealing knife-edge suspension for the nine rod gridiron pendulum with engine-turned silvered dial with Roman chapters, blued steel Breguet hands, subsidiary seconds below XII, later signed Breguet a Paris on a reserve in the centre, the eight day spring barrels movement with countwheel strike on a bell, the back plate numbered 24
23¼in. (59cm.) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Schiffer, Pennsylvania, 1999, p.141, fig.12-5.
J. Ramon Colon De Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes Del Patrimonio Nacional, Editorial Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, Catalogue No.452.
A lyre clock of related design was sold Christie's New York, The R.O. Schmitt Collection of Skeleton, Mystery and Novelty Clocks, 17 June 2005, lot 36.