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Lot 424 Dα

An officer's clock by Louis Duchêne et fils

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.536 € (incl. premium)
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An officer's clock by Louis Duchêne et fils

Ormolu clock with white enamel dial, black numerals and blued steel hands under domed glass, brass and steel mountings. Two day running movement with verge escapement, grande et petite sonnerie, countwheel, quarter-hourly striking on two bells, repetition and alarm mechanism. Signed on the dial "Louis Duchêne et fils". With two additional holes on the left. H 21.3 cm with handle folded down.
Geneva, after 1791.

The Geneva watchmaker Louis Duchêne (1730 - 1804) was famous for his enamelled pocket watches with musical mechanisms and automata, for the precision of his portable watches, his minute repeaters, small and large striking mechanisms, and jumping hours. His son joined the company as a partner in 1791, and it was subsequently renamed Louis Duchêne et fils. Their reliable watches and clocks were sold all over the world and exported as far afield as China.

Provenance

German private collection, acquired in 1986 from Eder in Munich.

Literature

This clockmaker mentioned in Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris 3/1972, p. 104, and in Baillie, Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, London-Edinburgh 5/1966, p. 90.