a french brass striking and repeating carriage clock with le roy patent underwind and alarm

LE ROY & FILS, NO.10313. CIRCA 1890

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a french brass striking and repeating carriage clock with le roy patent underwind and alarm
le roy & fils, no.10313. circa 1890
The gorge case with white enamel Roman dial with Arabic five minutes, signed LE ROY & FILS 57 New Bond Street, blued hands, with alarm ring below, silvered lever platform to the cut bimetallic balance, with bottom-winder to the underside stamped LE ROY & FILS PATENT NO.9501, strike/repeat/alarm on gong to the backplate numbered 10313
5½in. (14cm.) high

Lot Essay

Keyless bottom-wind clocks were a speciality of Le Roy & Fils. The going and striking trains are wound alternately by winding the fixed key first in one direction and then the other. This avoids the need for a separate key and also enables both winding functions to take place at once. See Charles Allix (Op. cit.) pp.219-221.

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