A fine French engraved gilt brass and porcelain panel inset carriage clock with Le-Roy and Fils patent keyless winding, push-button repeat and alarm Le Roy and Fils, Paris, circa 1880 The eight-day two train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and alarm sounding on the same gong, both trains wound via a contrate wheel connected to a large fixed key engraved LE ROY & FILS, PATENT 9501 fitted within the underside of the case configured to wind the going winding in one direction and the strike in the other, the backplate stamped with partially obscured serial number 59.. the dial with rectangular gilt brass mask engraved with leafy scrolling foliage enclosing a circular white enamel Roman numeral hour disc with Arabic five minutes to outer track and blued steel moon hands over conforming alarm setting dial to lower margin, the finely engraved gilt brass cannelee case with hinged carrying handle to the glazed oval panel centred floral spray decorated top over border-engraved top mouldings and inset porcelain side panels each finely painted with a romantic ruinous Classical landscape within an applied split pearl and gilt painted cobalt blue ground border, the rear with hinged door engraved with intense floral scrolls on a matted ground, the base decorated with further conforming shaped panel infill, 15cm (6ins) high excluding handle. The firm of 'Le Roy & Fils' can be traced back to 1785 when the business was founded by Basille Charles Le Roy at 60 Galerie de Pierre, Palais Royal, Paris. During the Revolutionary years the firm relocated to 88 Rue de L'Egalite before finally settling at Galerie Montpensier, 13 and 15 Palais Royal. In 1828 Basille Charles died leaving the business to his son, Charles-Louis, who continued producing clocks signed 'Le Roy & Fils' until 1845 when the firm was sold to his former employee Casimir Halley Desfontaines; who in turn was succeeded by his son M. George Halley Desfontaines in 1883. In 1888 M. George Halley died leaving the business to his brother Jules Halley who then took-in as a partner Louis Leroy (apparently no relation to the founders of the firm). In 1899 the firm left Palais Royal and moved to Boulevard de La Madeleine where it continued trading in the hands of various successors until well into the 20th century. The ingenious patent keyless bottom-wind system fitted to the current lot is described in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development pages 219-21.
A fine French engraved gilt brass and porcelain panel inset carriage clock with Le-Roy and Fils patent keyless winding, push-button repeat and alarm Le Roy and Fils, Paris, circa 1880 The eight-day two train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and alarm sounding on the same gong, both trains wound via a contrate wheel connected to a large fixed key engraved LE ROY & FILS, PATENT 9501 fitted within the underside of the case configured to wind the going winding in one direction and the strike in the other, the backplate stamped with partially obscured serial number 59.. the dial with rectangular gilt brass mask engraved with leafy scrolling foliage enclosing a circular white enamel Roman numeral hour disc with Arabic five minutes to outer track and blued steel moon hands over conforming alarm setting dial to lower margin, the finely engraved gilt brass cannelee case with hinged carrying handle to the glazed oval panel centred floral spray decorated top over border-engraved top mouldings and inset porcelain side panels each finely painted with a romantic ruinous Classical landscape within an applied split pearl and gilt painted cobalt blue ground border, the rear with hinged door engraved with intense floral scrolls on a matted ground, the base decorated with further conforming shaped panel infill, 15cm (6ins) high excluding handle. The firm of 'Le Roy & Fils' can be traced back to 1785 when the business was founded by Basille Charles Le Roy at 60 Galerie de Pierre, Palais Royal, Paris. During the Revolutionary years the firm relocated to 88 Rue de L'Egalite before finally settling at Galerie Montpensier, 13 and 15 Palais Royal. In 1828 Basille Charles died leaving the business to his son, Charles-Louis, who continued producing clocks signed 'Le Roy & Fils' until 1845 when the firm was sold to his former employee Casimir Halley Desfontaines; who in turn was succeeded by his son M. George Halley Desfontaines in 1883. In 1888 M. George Halley died leaving the business to his brother Jules Halley who then took-in as a partner Louis Leroy (apparently no relation to the founders of the firm). In 1899 the firm left Palais Royal and moved to Boulevard de La Madeleine where it continued trading in the hands of various successors until well into the 20th century. The ingenious patent keyless bottom-wind system fitted to the current lot is described in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development pages 219-21.
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