Cousin, Hger de Mgnr Comte d'Artois, circa 1780. Very fine and rare, white marble and gilt bronze, eight-day going, hour and half-hour striking centre seconds lyre clock with skeletonised swinging movement. | Important Watches, Wristwatches and clocks

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Geneva, Apr 20, 1996

LOT 534

Cousin, Hger de Mgnr Comte d'Artois, circa 1780. Very fine and rare, white marble and gilt bronze, eight-day going, hour and half-hour striking centre seconds lyre clock with skeletonised swinging movement.

CHF 30,000 - 35,000

C. Designed as a lyre in white marble, the oval base on four disc feet, applied with gilt bronze branches of flowers and foliage, sun figure at the top and further gilt pearled and sun-flower decoration. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Pierced and engraved "fleurs de lys" hands. M. Gilt brass fully skeletonised, fitted in the bob of the grid-iron half-second beating pendulum with knife edge suspension, with going barrel both for the going and the striking trains, Lepaute type pin-wheel escapement. Striking on a bell with count wheel. Signed on the dial. In very good condition on a gilt wood base and protected by a fine shaped glass dome. Dim. 53 x 25 x 12 cm.

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Most of the clocks of this type are with a fixed movement, the pendulum only being swinging. Examples with a swinging movement which is also fully skeletonised, are extremely rare. Comte d'Artois was the title given to the brother of Louis XVI, during his exile from 1789 until his coronation as Charles X, in 1824.