14,950 CHF
"Revolving Escapement Carriage Clock" Antoine Redier et fils (R. R.), Paris, Breveté, No. 110104. Made circa 1895. Very fine and very rare gilt brass eight-day carriage clock with revolving escapement and striking and repeating the hours and half hours. Multi-piece, "canelee", gilt brass, hinged carrying handle,dedicated moulded top with oval bevelled glass viewing port,moulded pillars, the front, sides and hinged door fitted withbevelled glass, moulded base. White enamel with radialRoman numerals, outer minute indexes and Arabic five minutenumerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Rectangular polishedbrass plates, four turned pillars, two spring barrels, silvered andgilt square platform engraved with foliage, with rotating escape-mentcarriage with two-arm bridge, straight line lever escape-ment,bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance-spring,regulator arm, striking the hours on both the hour andhalf-hour on a gong, repeating activated by depressing a buttonon the top. Dial and movement signed.Dim. 144 x 92 x 83 mm. Notes Revolving escapements are very occasionally found placed on the top of carriage clock movements in the position normally occupied by a standard platfrom lever escapement. The rotation of the carriage can be seen and appreciated through the top glass of the case. The employment of a revolving escapement still requires the use of a contrate wheel and it was probably the desire to add mystique rather than for any practical reason that this
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-05-15
