The case engraved with foliage and scrolls, with folding handle and push/repeat, four bevelled glazed panels, signed white enamel dial with seconds subsidiary at the XII, blued steel 'Breguet' moon hands and alarm subsidiary, original platform with bi-metallic compensated balance and duplex escapement, the twin train movement striking and repeating on a bell, numbered 4919 and 253, and numbered 7314 on the back of the frontplate, the shuttered solid door, signed BOURDIN Hger Bte RUE DE LA PAIX 28, with an associated green velvet-lined leather travelling case
15cm high
PROVENANCE:
Cyril Fish, thence by descent.
A. E. Bourdin are recorded in the rue de la Paix 1840-60.
Condition report
The clock has its original gilding. It is going, striking and repeating. The bottom back corner of the left hand glass is chipped.
