Lot 1273

AN ENGLISH ENGRAVED GILT BRASS STRIKING AND REPEATING CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR

The platform escapement signed Philip Noyer, London, circa 1860

Estimate: £6,000 - £9,000
Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.

The heavy case engraved all over with foliage, a rectangular bevelled glass to the top and dial, with folding handle and push/repeat, the engraved silvered dial with seconds subsidiary below the XII and two subsidiaries below for month and date, large gilt brass platform signed Noyer London, with bi-metallic compensated balance, free sprung and diamond endstone, Earnshaw spring detent escapement, the French twin train movement with going barrels, circular cut-out in the upper section of the backplate to adjust the platform, strike/silent lever, striking and repeating the hours and halves on a blued steel gong, with alarm train,  stamped to the underside 692
14cm high (handle down)

PROVENANCE: 
Cyril Fish, thence by descent.


Condition report
The clock is ticking.  It repeats and strikes the hours and the half-hours.  Please note the movement is French with an English escapement and cased in London.

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