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Drocourt_Reiseuhr_No. 15965 um 1880 French Engraved Gilt-Bronze Oval Carriage Clock with Grand-Sonnerie Striking, Simple Calendar and Alarm.

Case: The decorative gilt-bronze oval case has crisp, detailed engraving, a hinged crescent shaped handle, beveled glasses to five sides and is stamped ‘15965’ on the underside where it also carries the maker's engraved plaque, 'Carriage Clockmaker, Drocourt, Paris, Rue Debelleyme 28'.

Dial: The finely lettered white circular hour dial has black Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic five-minute marks, finely cut Breguet-style hands and is signed by the maker, ‘Drocourt, 28 Rue Debelleyme, Paris’. Below are the three subsidiary dials for day, date and alarm and the whole is framed by an elaborately engraved gilt-bronze mask.

Movement: The eight-day grand-sonnerie movement strikes on two gongs, is wound and set off the backplate, has the strike lever out the bottom, all the indications in English, is stamped with the serial number, '15965' and the maker's mark, 'DC' and retains the original balance platform with a screwed bimetallic balance wheel and lever escapement. Notes: This is a superb example from a maker renowned for excellent work. Drocourt would usually stamp the backplate and sometimes sign the dial, but this is the first piece we have seen where they also mounted an engraved plaque on the underside.

Original Case Included.

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