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A good second quarter of the 19th century grande sonnerie striking carriage clock with alarm Lamy & Lacroix a Morez
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £8,000
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A good second quarter of the 19th century grande sonnerie striking carriage clock with alarm
Lamy & Lacroix a Morez
The case with foliate cast handle set on leopards head pommels, over an inverted breakfront cornice cast with foliate bosses over reeded Corinthian pilasters to a similar base on disc feet, the rectangular white enamel Roman dial with outer minute track, Breguet-style hands and an alarm setting hand set over the subsidiary hand for strike option Silence, Petite Sonnerie or Grande Sonnerie, the twin spring barrel movement wound from the front, the going train terminating in a Swiss club foot lever escapement with three armed monometallic steel balance, the cock indistinctly stamped Fumey, the strike work mounted on the backplate striking on two bells and hammers 16cms (6ins) high.
The case with foliate cast handle set on leopards head pommels, over an inverted breakfront cornice cast with foliate bosses over reeded Corinthian pilasters to a similar base on disc feet, the rectangular white enamel Roman dial with outer minute track, Breguet-style hands and an alarm setting hand set over the subsidiary hand for strike option Silence, Petite Sonnerie or Grande Sonnerie, the twin spring barrel movement wound from the front, the going train terminating in a Swiss club foot lever escapement with three armed monometallic steel balance, the cock indistinctly stamped Fumey, the strike work mounted on the backplate striking on two bells and hammers 16cms (6ins) high.
Footnotes
J-M Fumey was a maker of platform escapements in the mid 19th century. In the 1855 Paris Exhibition he was awarded a Bronze medal.
Lamy and Lacroix were based in Morez, in the Franche Comte area of France, just by the Swiss border. As such, their movements were often in the Swiss tradition, in particular in the mounting of the steel strike work on the backplate. See Derek Roberts, 'Carriage and other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer, 1993, Fig 15-5 a,b,and c.