Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 255

Rossel & LaCour ? Orientalist Champlevé Enamel Striking Carriage Clock P.M., French, retailed by J. Rossel et de Lacour, Rue de la Paix 10, Paris, No. 12795. Made in the Oriental style, circa 1880. Very fine and very rare, gilt-bronze, champlevé enamel, hardstone and parcel-gilt bronze, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking and hour repeating carriage clock with alarm. Accompanied by the original fitted travelling case with applied monogram.

C. Rectangular, single-body, entirely overlaid with blue champlevé enamel, engraved decoration with a chicken, cranes, flowers and foliage, gilt brass bezels for the dial and alarm apertures, the back with shuttered winding, handsetting and regulation apertures, parcel-gilt bronze Chinese dog of Fo finial on a hardstone platform, hardstone and giltbronze base with applied parcel-gilt mount to the front. d. Matte gilt with Oriental numerals on applied convex white enamel cartouches, inner blue champlevé enamel diac, alarm dial below decorated to match. Gilt Orientalist hands. M. 9.2 x 6.7 cm., gilt brass with four ring-turned pillars, going barrels for both trains, detached underslung lever escapement, the balance on a matte gilt platform, notched bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, striking and repeating on a coiled gong, separate alarm train with a further hammer. Backplate punched ?PM?. Dim. 19.5 x 9.2 x 8.4 cm