Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 172

CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH LIMOGES ENAMEL PANELS French, No. 1525. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, gilt and silvered-brass, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking and repeating carriage clock with Limoges School Revival painted on enamel panels and alarm.

C. Gilt-brass, anglaise riche, with Corinthian columns and silvered dentilled cornice, beveled glass aperture in the top for viewing the escapement, hinged handle with fl uted silvered center, each side set with a very fi nely painted grisaille and gold enamel Limoges School Revival panel depicting a winged cherub, glazed back door, button for the repeating on the top. D. Enamel with red painted radial Roman numerals on oval white reserves, outer gilt dot minute divisions, black ground, matching alarm setting dial below with Arabic numerals, matte gilt dial mask. Polished steel hands. M. Rectangular gilt brass plates, going barrels for both trains, lateral lever escapement on a silvered platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and half-hours on a gong, separate alarm train with further hammer. Dim. 15.7 x 10.1 x 9.1 cm. Excluding handle.