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A fine mignonnette #1 carriage clock with portrait panels and travel case
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France, a fine mignonette #1 carriage clock with travel case, gilt Gorge variant case with beveled glasses, the sides with engraved masks enframing oval portraits of young women, engraved dial mask with roman numeral white enamel dial and blued distaff hands, 8 day timepiece movement with lever platform and cut bimetallic balance, with outer, red velvet lined travel case
A fine 19th century French gilt brass carriage clock
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A fine 19th century French gilt brass carriage clock with calendar in the manner of Abraham Louis Breguet
The Classically inspired case with folding bud handle and four bud finials on an engine turned ground over rosettes and reeded columns to a matching base on button feet, the white enamel dial with blue Roman numerals, minute track and blued steel trefoil hands over a subsidiary date dial within an engine turned mask, the movement with twin barrels driving a gilt platform with bimetallic balance to a lever escapement, the strike and repeat on a bell behind a shuttered rear panel. Together with an associated mid 19th century leather covered travel case and a double ended key. 16cms (6.25ins) high.
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This carriage clock is closely modelled on the early travel clocks by the great Abraham Louis Breguet. Comparable examples by Breguet were sold in these rooms 11 December 2019, lot 106 (Breguet number 2889, circa 1804), lot 107 (Breguet number 4248, circa 1837) and lot 109 (Breguet number 2963, circa 1820).
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Carriage Clock in Travel Case
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Carriage Clock in Travel Case: brass cased with beveled glass; has key; no maker’s mark seen; paper mache travel case. (Could not get case open to wind the clock to check running condition; slight tarnish area to top of clock; paper mache case in rough condition but almost complete except for a slat at the inside top.)
7 1/2″ with handle
French Carriage Clock in Travel Case
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French Carriage Clock in Travel Case: TO movement in a brass case with 5 beveled glass sides and a porcelain dial. The traveling case is dark red or maroon colored with one glass side and a key in its’ storage sleeve.
The clock is in excellent condition and running at this time.
4 1/4″ Tall, excluding the handle
Sells as is, where is.
Fine French Brass Carriage Clock & Case
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French Carriage Clock in original case. Measures 3 3/4 in. x 2 in. Dial shows hairlines and amateur restoration.
Fine French Brass Carriage Clock & Case
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French Carriage Clock in original case. Measures 3 3/4 in. x 2 in. Dial shows hairlines and amateur restoration.
Reverse on Glass Clock Case Portrait “Emeline”
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Reverse on Glass Clock Case Portrait “Emeline”
(Appears to be repainted and has no problems.)
13 3/4″ x 10 3/4″