Lot 75

A RARE FRENCH GILT-BRASS STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH BAROMETER AND THERMOMETERS

With cachet mark LS between a palm frond, circa 1890

Estimate: £700 - £1,000
Hammer price: £750
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

In a Corniche case with pivoted handle above an oval bevelled glass, the silvered dial surround with a thermometer to each side, one with mercury tube reading Reaumur, the other with red spirit reading Centigrade, the white enamel clock dial between with finely cut fleur-de-lys hands, and a silvered aneroid barometer scale below, the twin train movement with original gilt platform lever escapement, striking the hour and half on a blued steel gong, the backplate with cachet mark LS between a palm frond

15cm high


CONDITION REPORT

The case is in very good restored condition.  It has been re-gilt.  No damage to the glasses.  The clock ticks, strikes and repeats.  There is a modern brass double-ended key.  

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