A FRENCH LOUIS PHILIPPE GILT BRASS ALARM CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR BOURDIN, PARIS, CIRCA 1845The two train eight-day bell striking movement with gilt platform lever escapement regulated by sprung monometallic balance, the rectangular silvered brass Roman numeral dials with blued steel arrow hands over twin subsidiary Arabic numeral dials for date-of-the-month and alarm setting, the early multipiece bevel-glazed case with hinged baton carrying handle over large rectangular glass, ogee top mouldings and rounded uprights to angles, the rear with gilt brass panel incorporating graduated regulation slide to upper margin over signature Bourdin H'r du Roi, 24 R. de la Paix, PARIS and shuttered winding, hand setting and alarm adjustment holes, on cavetto moulded skirt base also with rounded angles, (calendar and alarm currently inoperative).14cm (5.5ins) high with handle down, 9cm (3.5ins) wide, 7cm (2.75ins) deep. A.E. Bourdin is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as being awarded medals for carriage clocks in the Paris Expositions; Bronze 1844, Silver 1855 and Bronze again in 1866. A very fine complex four-train grande-sonnerie striking chronometer carriage clock with calendar by Bourdin is illustrated by Allix and Bonnert on page 110 (Plates V/7-8).
A FRENCH LOUIS PHILIPPE GILT BRASS ALARM CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CALENDAR BOURDIN, PARIS, CIRCA 1845The two train eight-day bell striking movement with gilt platform lever escapement regulated by sprung monometallic balance, the rectangular silvered brass Roman numeral dials with blued steel arrow hands over twin subsidiary Arabic numeral dials for date-of-the-month and alarm setting, the early multipiece bevel-glazed case with hinged baton carrying handle over large rectangular glass, ogee top mouldings and rounded uprights to angles, the rear with gilt brass panel incorporating graduated regulation slide to upper margin over signature Bourdin H'r du Roi, 24 R. de la Paix, PARIS and shuttered winding, hand setting and alarm adjustment holes, on cavetto moulded skirt base also with rounded angles, (calendar and alarm currently inoperative).14cm (5.5ins) high with handle down, 9cm (3.5ins) wide, 7cm (2.75ins) deep. A.E. Bourdin is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as being awarded medals for carriage clocks in the Paris Expositions; Bronze 1844, Silver 1855 and Bronze again in 1866. A very fine complex four-train grande-sonnerie striking chronometer carriage clock with calendar by Bourdin is illustrated by Allix and Bonnert on page 110 (Plates V/7-8).
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