The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999

LOT 409

French, circa 1880.Fine and unusual gilt brass Petite Sonnerie, quarter repeating carriage clock with alarm.

CHF 2,200 - 2,600

C. Gilt bronze designed as a small Régence bracket clock richly decorated with foliage, female's heads at each corner, a mask on the pediment. D. White enamel with Arabic numeral and outer minute ring. Gilt brass Louis XV hands. M. Brass, eight-day with going barrels both on the going and the striking trains, gilt brass platform escapement with straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring. Quarter striking, repeating and alarm on two gongs with giltrass button on the top, small enamel alarm setting dial on the back plate.Dim. 23 x 12 x 11 cm., including the handle.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 4

Fair

Movement: * 4 - 5
Dial: 4 - 01