Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 142

MUSICAL CARRIAGE CLOCK I.L. Brown, French. Made circa 1880. Fine, rare and unusual, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking, gilt-brass and silver carriage clock with musical movement, day, date and moon phases.

Multi-piece, Anglaise riche, gilt-brass, fluted corinthian pillars, molded top and base, the top with glazed aperture to view the escapement, glazed on four sides, the base containing the musical movement with triangular feet. White enamel annular chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, painted with clouds and a starry sky with aperture for the moon phases, three white enamel dials below for the date, days of the week. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rectangular brass plates, going barrels for both trains, lateral lever escapement on a frosted silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, striking on a gong, the musical movement activated via a lever in the base, single-piece steel comb with tuned teeth, fly governor. DIM. 16.5 x 11.3 x 10 cm.