Retailer: Hunt & Roskell, London, 4999.

The gilt-bronze McCabe style case has beveled glasses to five sides and a shaped handle with a reeded center.

The white  porcelain time and alarm dials have decorative grey centers and chapters. They have Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic numbers for the alarm, gilt 5-minute marks and alarm 1/2 hour marks, steel-cut hands and are framed by a frosted gilt mask. The time dial is signed by the retailer ‘Hunt & Roskell, London.

The high-quality eight-day twin barrel movement has frosted silvered plates, an alarm and is quarter-striking and minute repeating  on two gongs. The repeat button is out the top while the strike selection indicator lever is out the bottom. The backplate has beautifully engraved indicator arrows and text, is stamped 4999 and has ‘Hunt & Roskell, London’ at the top. The jeweld gilt lever platform has a split bi-metallic balance wheel, a free-sprung balance and the train has jewels at the contrate wheel.

From the Chrisites sale text: The present clock gives the outward appearance of a high quality McCabe carriage clock; however, inside it has an extremely rare French minute repeating and quarter striking movement. The combination of English case and French minute repetition makes this clock considerably rarer than were it to have had, for example, a McCabe twin fusee movement inside. See also footnote to lot 73 regarding the use of English cases with English movements.

Christies South Kensington, French Carriage Clocks, 3 July 1997, lot 124.  6900 GBP / 11,500 USD

For another minute repeating clock with similar dials also retailed by Hunt and Roskell see: A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks by Fanelli, pg.14,