A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MOUNTED GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MOUNTED GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

AUGUSTIN MERCERON, ANGOULEME. SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed16 December 2008

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EUR 4,000

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MOUNTED GREEN-PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
AUGUSTIN MERCERON, ANGOULEME. SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The case shaped as a vase with fluted sides, surmounted by acorn finials, on a square plinth base, the white enamel dial with blued steel Breguet type hands and signed Aug.tin Merceron Elève de Breguet à. Angoulême, eigth-day twin-barrel movement with anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum, winding key
37 cm. high

Specialist note

Merceron is known having been working as an escapment maker for A.L. Breguet, he is recorded working as a chronométrier at Plàce du Marché in Angoulème between 1830-1840.