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A Directoire Grande and Petite Sonnerie Pendule d’Officier by Frères Rey
A Directoire Grande and Petite Sonnerie Pendule d’Officier by Frères Rey
A Directoire Grande and Petite Sonnerie Pendule d’Officier by Frères Rey
A Directoire Grande and Petite Sonnerie Pendule d’Officier by Frères Rey, Paris, date circa 1800
Frères Rey
Signed on the white enamel dial Frères Rey
Gilt bronze
Height with handle 24 cm.
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Literature

Charles Allix, “Carriage Clocks, their History and Development”, 1974, p. 22, pl.1/28,

Illustrating a slightly earlier Swiss pendule d’officier with a very similar case, signed on the dial Cugnier Leschot in the Musèe d’Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds.

 

A rare Directoire gilt bronze Grande and Petite Sonnerie Pendule d’Officier of one day Duration, signed on the white enamel dial Frères Rey, the dial with Arabic numerals and a pair of blued steel hands with stars for the hours and minutes and a plain blued steel pointer for the alarm. The movement with grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie, silence and alarm, striking on the hour and half hour. The fine gilt bronze case with concave moulded top with a scrolled floral rosette surmounted by a serpentine handle, the side panels with applied rosettes, on paw feet

 

Paris, date circa 1800

Height with handle 24 cm.

 

The Parisian firm of clockmakers known as Frères Rey are recorded in Paris 1800.

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