Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 78

"Giant Grande & Petite Sonnerie Carriage Clock" Le Roy & Fils, 13 & 15 Palais Royal, Paris, 296 Regent Street, London, No. 11896. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, giant, gilt brass, grande and petite sonnerie striking and repeating, 8 day-going carriage clock with alarm, original traveling case and key.

C. Gilt brass "gorge", glazed sides and back door, the top glazed to view the escapement, hinged carrying handle. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, star half-hour indexes, outer minute track and Arabic five-minute numerals, alarm dial below with Arabic numerals and star indexes, matte gilt mask. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Gilt brass, rectangular plates, four pillars, barrels for the going, striking and alarm trains, straight-line lever escapement on a silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters on two gongs, petite sonnerie/ silence/ grande sonnerie selection lever in the base. Dial and movement signed. Dim. Height 21.5 cm., width 11 cm.