A carriage clock with grande and petite sonnerie, moon dial and calendar work by Charles Frédéric Klentschi , La-Chaux-de-Fonds, date circa 1830 - 40
Charles Frédéric Klentschi
Stamped on the back plate with the initials and trade mark.
Gilt brass
Height 15.5 cm
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An exceptional gilt brass carriage clock with grande and petite sonnerie, moon dial and calendar work by Charles Frédéric Klentschi, made for the Export market.
La-Chaux-de-Fonds, date circa 1830 - 40.
Height 15.5 cm
The maker Charles Frédéric Klentschi was born in 1774 and died in 1854. He is a notable maker and ran a horological school with Maillardet from about 1814. One of his pupils at the school was Fritz Courvoisier who has produced a number of clocks with similar strike work mounted on the backplate. Klentschi also worked for the Courvoisier family.