Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, Nov 13, 2011

LOT 57

CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH MINIATURE PORTRAITS, THE QUEENS OF FRANCE French, No. 2111. Made circa 1900. Very fine and extremely rare, hour and half-hour striking and repeating, 8-day going, gilt-brass carriage clock with alarm and inset hand-painted portrait miniatures of Marie Leszczynska, Queen Consort of Louis XV after the artist Carl van Loo and Marie- Antoinette, Queen consort of Louis XVI.

C. Multi-piece, gilt-brass, hobnail decorated edges, fl uted pillars, the foliate engraved gilt-brass side panels set with fi ne glazed hand-painted portraits of Marie Leszczynska and Marie-Antoinette, signed ?CP?, glazed panel at the top to view the escapement, hinged reeded handle, hinged glazed back door. D. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer dot minute track with Arabic 5-minute numerals, the center with painted on enamel polychrome fl ower swags, similarly decorated alarm setting-dial below with Arabic numerals, foliate engraved gilt-brass mask. Gilt-brass fl eur-de-lis hands. M. Rectangular brass plates, going barrels for the going and striking trains, lateral lever escapement on a silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator, striking and repeating on a gong, separate alarm train. Dim. 14.7 x 10.2 x 9 cm.