Berthoud, France, circa 1860. Fine and rare large gilt bronze, hour and half hour striking carnage clock with remontoire, power reserve indicator and chronometer escapement. | Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 10th April 1994

Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 10, 1994

LOT 132

Berthoud, France, circa 1860. Fine and rare large gilt bronze, hour and half hour striking carnage clock with remontoire, power reserve indicator and chronometer escapement.

CHF 30,000 - 35,000

Sold: CHF 36,800

C. Gilt bronze, "Corniche" type, engine-turned, glazed on five faces. D. Silvered engine-turned with Roman numerals on a polished chapter, inner 8 day up-anddown sector, Arabic subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Rectangular with turned pillars, going barrels both for the going and the striking train, hait hour remontoire, platform escapement with pivoted detent escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel balance spring with terminal curves. Signed on the dial. In very good condition. Dim. 25 x 17 x 13 cm.

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A similar clock is illustrated by Charles Allix in Carnage clocks, pp 112-113, plates V/12 - V/13. These very fine chronometer travelling clocks were produced by Auguste Louis Berthoud, fine chronometer maker and grandson of Louis Berthoud. Alphonse XIII (Madrid 1886-Rome 1941) Posthumus son of Alphonse XII, King of Spain from 1886 to 1931. Since 1923, he had to accept the Dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera. He left his contry after the Municipal Elections in 1931 which were won by the Republicans. Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin - Born in Valencia on 27 February 1863, died in Cercedillo on 11 August 1923. Pupil of the San Carlos Art School in Valencia, he made several journeys in France and Italy. From 1884 to 1888 he worked in Rome. The most important impressionist Spanish painter awarded the Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900. Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, associated member of the Société des Artistes Français, he came frequently in Paris where he worked several months. His Company was much appreciated by Alphonse XIII who often invited him to hunting parties.