RARE PENDULE DE VOYAGE DU MILIEU DU 19EME SIECLE EN LAITON GRAVE, MOUVEMENT A SONNERIE ET REPETITION, RESSORT HELICOIDAL A fine and rare mid 19th century French engraved brass striking and repeating carriage clock with helical balance spring

Stevenard Horloger Mecanicien a Boulogne sur Mer

Stevenard Horloger Mecanicien a Boulogne sur Mer
The tall rectangular case with shaped handle over bevelled glass panels and canted corners, signed white enamel Roman dial over subsidiaries for date and alarm, the signed movement with blued steel helical hairspring over a cut and compensated bimetallic balance to a club foot lever escapement, with rack strike on a bell. 19cms high.

Pierre Stevenard (1801-1883) was a fine maker of automata and moving dolls, which he often set with clocks. His automata masterpiece was in the form of a wizard within a palace; it was exhibited in Paris and was visited by King Louis Philippe.

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