c.1885 French Gilt-Bronze Double Dial Calendar Clock with Elaborately Engraved Mask.

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c.1885 French Gilt-Bronze Double Dial Calendar Clock with Elaborately Engraved Mask.
Inv. #: df15
Dial:

Porcelain chapter ring dial with sunken center and outside escapement, blue Roman numerals for the hours, red Arabic numbers for the five-minute marks and steel-cut hands.

The calendar has a porcelain chapter ring indicating leap years and a sunken center with days, date, month and moon dial.

Movement:

The eight-day time and strike movement with a Brocot escapement is stamped ‘15148’ and has a mercury compensating pendulum.

Calendar mechanism is advanced from above, is set off the backplate and is also stamped twice, ‘15148’.

Notes:

Often the serial numbers on these clocks are not matching, but off by small amount. It is nice to find one that the serial numbers match.

Size: 15in.
Retail Price: SOLD

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