A FINE AND RARE GIANT GRANDE SONNERIE STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH ORIGINAL CASE AND KEY
| Starting bid | £4,000 |
| Estimate | £4,000 - £6,000 |
| Absentee deadline | Dec 3, 2025, 12:00:00 PM |
By Drocourt, Paris, No 16027, circa 1890
The gilt Gorge case with bevelled glass panels and push/repeat button, the underside of the base with Striking/Full Striking and Strike/Silent lever, the white enamel dial with traces of the retailer’s name TIFFANY, blued steel spade hands and alarm subsidiary, large platform lever escapement with cut-brass compensated balance, the twin train movement, numbered and with Drocourt’s cachet mark, turned thumb-pieces for the hand and alarm setting as well as for winding the alarm, with strike on two blued steel coiled gongs, with original double ended extra large key and red Morocco leather case.
25cm high (handle up)
PROVENANCE:
Cyril Fish, thence by descent
Drocourt's 'Giant' size carriage clocks are comparatively rare. See Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, Carriage Clocks, Their History and Development, Woodbridge, 1974, pp. 185-186.
Another with hour/half strike sold Bellmans, 16 November 2022, lot 1232 (£6,000 hammer)
A Grande Sonnerie giant with moon phase and calendar sold Bellmans, 12 May 2025, lot 74 (£9,000 hammer)
CONDITION REPORT
The clock requires a service. It does tick but is sluggish and soon stops. The strike mechanism works and the repeat action works. The righthand glass has a chip at the base at the front corner and another at the back corner, they are barely visible though. Other glasses are OK.
