Small French corniche-style gilt brass
carriage clock signed Paul Garnier (circa 1880)
on the dial ans on the backplate.
Halberd blued steel hands,
crab-tooth platform
escapement with bi-metallic balance
and blued steel balance spring.
Height with handle raised 10.5cm


EUR 2000.-
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Grande Sonnerie gilt carriage clock with alarm and calendar,
annular enamel dial with Roman numerals signed Henri Capt Genève
with subsidiaries below for day of the week, alarm and date,
all set in a finely foliate engraved gilt mask,
similarly signed movement numbered 18562 marked and made by Drocourt,
ratchet tooth lever platform escapement with bi-metallic balance,
alarm and strikes on two gongs, trip repeating grande sonnerie
striking with lever for grande sonnerie/silence/petite sonnerie
at the bottom, similarly numbered unusual gilt brass case
with moulded dome top with oval glass panel and surmounted
by a shaped handle, corner columns flanking the beveled glass
panels on all sides, moulded plinth raised on block feet.
Maltese crosses fitted on both barrels, autonomy 1 week.
Height 20cm handle raised.


EUR 9.500,-

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Early 19th C. French Capucine, enamel dial with Roman numerals,
red arabic numerals for the quarter markers, and red signature
Martin à Bagnol (North of Limoges in the Massif Central).
Double rack strike on the hour and two minutes past the hour, single
half-hourly strike on a sivered bell. Alarm set by a third hand on the dial.
Finely cut blued steel hands with brass tips, steel alarm hand.
Eight-day movement with simplified maltese cross winding stops on both barrels,
anchor recoil escapement with silk suspension.
Alarm system set by the steel hand on the dial,
and wound by pulling the string on the left side.
Height (with carrying handle upright): 30cm

EUR 7500.-
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Very rare French Capucine from the Consulate period (1799-1803),
signed on the front plate
and on the underside François Marie Sonard de Morez
En montagne Dep du jura le premie julliet 1801 (sic).
Enamel dial with Arabic numerals, plus the quarter hours markers,
finely pierced brass hands,
steel bued alarm hand. Eight-day movement
with simplified maltese cross winding stops on both barrels,
very unusual pinwheel escapement with silk suspension.
 Swiss-type quarter rack strike on two bells,
the single hourly strike on the large bell, the quarters on both bells.
Precision alarm system set by the steel hand on the dial,
and wound by pulling the string on the left side.
Overall height (with handle raised) 26cm


EUR 8.500,-

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Early 19th C. French Capucine,
enamel dial with Roman numerals,
signed E. Doyen à Lodève.
(35kms West of Montpellier)
Double rack strike on the hour and
two minutes past the hour, single
half-hourly strike on a sivered bell.
Alarm set by a third hand on the dial,
repeat lever to the side,
Finely cut brass hands.
Anchor recoil escapement with silk suspension.
Height (with carrying handle upright): 30cm

EUR 7000.-
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Late 18th C. French Capucine, enamel dial with Roman numerals,
signed Barthet à Marseille. Double rack strike on the hour and
two minutes past the hour on a silvered bell.
Alarm set by an engraved disk in the middle of the dial,
repeat lever to the side, finely cut brass hands.
Tic-tac 2 1/2 teeth anchor recoil escapement with silk suspension.
Height (with carrying handle upright): 28cm


EUR 7.000,-

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Late 19th C French architectural cased giant carriage clock
signed Gve Sacré, Her de S.A.R. Mgr Le Comte de Flandre,
Bruxelles, with shaped handle over the architectural top,
rich mouldings, reeded side columns on a stepped base,
the round enamel dial set into a frost-gilt mask with Roman
numerals and blued steel spade hands to the twin barrel
movement with large silvered platform escapement
and cut bi-metallic balance, half-hourly strike on gong.
Height 27cm.

EUR 7000,-
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Late 19th century French repeating carriage clock
retailed by Crouch and Sons, Paris
The gilt and silvered brass case with three-piece handle
surmount over moulded top section, free-standing fluted
columns with foliate decoration, rich moulding and fluted
block feet, the signed white enamel dial with Roman and
Arabic numerals and blued steel moon hands to the twin
barrel gong-striking movement with silvered
lever platform escapement with bi-metallic cut balance wheel.
Height 22cm

EUR 5800.-
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