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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 327

French, circa 1890.Fine and unusual, gilt bronze, eight day going, hour and half hour striking, hour repeating carriage clock with triple calendar and alarm.

C. Gilt bronze, ?corniche?, glazed four faces and top. D. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring, subsidiary dials for dates and months, alarm setting and sector for fly back days of the week. Blued steel ?trefles? hands. M. Gilt brass rectangular with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, silvered platform with Swiss swan neck lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, flat balance spring, striking repeating and alarm on a bell with button at theop.Dim. 12,5 x 8,5 x 8 cm., excluding the handle.