Eight-day going carriage-clock, Grande et Petite Sonnerie, alarm, neo-gothic dial; gilded brass

Gilded brass, key-winding, vertical rectangular-shape, eight-day going, carriage-clock, with four 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)

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

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

Movement, 100 x 75 mm., two going barrels, plat-form escapement with straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator.

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