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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 109

Grande Sonnerie Charles-Frederic Colomb, Neuchatel, Swiss. Made circa 1790. Very fine and extremely rare, gilt brass, three-train, 8-day going, grande sonnerie striking and repeating mantel clock with pull-wind alarm.

C. Rectangular, gilt brass, arch-top, the front with a flowerhead paterae in the lower corners, hinged bezel with bead decoration, fluted frieze, each side mounted with a large flowerhead paterae, bell-top with flower swag mount, hinged snake handle, four turned finials, bead and reel base, raised on four turned feet, gilt brass back door with sound frets. D. White enamel, convex, dauphine numerals, outer minute track. Pierced and engraved gilt brass hour and minute hands, steel arrow alarm hand. M. 13.5 x 11 cm., gilt brass rectangular arch-top plates, four pillars, three-train with large spring barrels, verge escapement with micrometric potence adjustment, silk suspension, brass bob pendulum, regulation through the front of the case, striking and repeating the hours and quarters with three hammers on two stacked bells on the backplate, alarm pulley and strikework on the backplate, alarm sounding with a further double-ended hammer on a further underslung bell. Movement punched CFC on both frontplate and backplate. Dim. 26 x 13.5 x 8 cm.