The Longitude at the Eve of the Third...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 23, 1999
LOT 451
Normandie, France, dated 1775.Fine 30 hour going iron weight driven hour and half-hour striking lantern clock with alarm.
CHF 3,500 - 4,000
C. Posted frame with square pillars, the front face with turned brass finials and brass fretted pediment.D. Pewter chapter ring with Roman numerals and star half-hour divisions, brass dial plate and centre alarm setting disc. Single blued steel hands. M. Weight driven double train with brass wheels, the going train with anchor escapement and bob pendulum with silk suspension. Striking train and alarm on the top bell, with fly regulator and locking plate on the back.Dated on the dial.Dim. 26 x 15,5 x 10 cm.
| Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 4 |
Fair |
Movement: * 4 |
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Dial: 4 - 01 |
Notes
The first English lantern clocks which were imported to France, crossed the Channel and arrived in the harbours of Caen, Le Havre and Rouen from where they became popular throughout the north of France, down to Paris. Thanks to Horlogéographie pratique ou la manière de faire des horloges à poids avec la méthode de faire et diviser avec une seule ouverture de compas tous les cercles de la plate-forme des horlogers, 8o,119 p., the book, published in 1719 by the Père Beuriot, Augustin Monk in Rouen. The English Lantern Clocks, much simplified, were produced in Normandy, by iron craftsmen, even in the smallest villages. The famous Comtoise clocks produced in Morbier and Morez, in the French Jura, became the most popular domestic clock in all the rest of France.