Eight-day going carriage-clock, Grande et Petite Sonnerie, alarm, double date, moon phases; gilded brass

Gilded brass, key-winding, vertical rectangular-shape, eight-day going, carriage-clock, with seven horological complications:

· Grande Sonnerie (in passing, at the quarters, strikes the hours and the quarter of hours, and, at the hour, the hours elapsed; on two steel gongs)

· Petite Sonnerie (in passing, at the quarters, strikes only the quarter of the hours, and, at the hour, the hours elapsed; on the same gongs); with position lever of “Petite Sonnerie”, “Silence” and “Grande Sonnerie” under the base

· Hour and quarter-hour striking on request (on the same gongs); activated by depressing the button on top of the cabinet

· Alarm on one gong via a small hammer (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock)

· Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 5 o’clock)

· Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 7 o’clock; indications given in French)

· Phases of the moon (aperture at 6 o’clock in the dial); with correction lever under the base

“Anglaise Riche” case with fluted columns and Corinthian capitals; the top with glazed aperture to view the escapement.

Cream enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Fantasy” hands. Gilded brass false-plate.

Movement, 110 x 75 mm. (ebauche No. 1 656), two going barrels, plat-form escapement with lateral equilibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator.

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