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Louis George - A collection of 6 carriage clocks from different eras An exquisite Berlin quarter hour repeating officer carriage clock with hour strike and alarm Dimensions 145 mm, circa 1780, Origin Deutschland Case: Brass, firegilt, engraved baroque décor, enamel cartouche with signature, engraved bracket feet, glazed sides, convex and concave curved top with handle, bell mounted in the base, pusher for repeating mechanism. Dial: Enamel, radial Roman hours, central alarm disc with radial Arabic numerals, additional enamel regulating dial, pierced blued hands. Movm.: Rectangular-shaped brass movement, chain/fusee for going train, 2 barrels, 2 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance. Eminent watchmaker Louis George (1743-1812) was a third generation descendant of a French Huguenot family who had fled to Berlin. From 1769 on George delivered timepieces to Frederick the Great, his successor Frederick William II and also Frederick William II’s successor Frederick William III as "Horloger du Roy" (watchmaker to the king). He also supplied different types of watches and clocks, such as console clocks, pocket and deck watches, chronometers, odometers, pendulum clocks and mostly flute and organ clocks to other German rulers. He had business relations to Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the father of Henri-Louis Droz, as well as to Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Case: very good, rubbed. Dial: very good, hairlines. Movm.: very good, capable of running, cleaning needed.

Stima 1 700 - 4 000 EUR