Nr. 289 CUM
9-inch Comtoise clock with verge escapement and folded pendulum from around 1815/20. Half-hour strike en passant, full-hour strike on a bell with repetition, and rear pendulum suspension. Three-part pressed decorative plate featuring a sun face (Apollo), ribbon bow, fruit bowl, and acanthus leaves. In the corners of the dial, four five-pointed stars on a radially textured background. The enamel dial with small Roman numerals and quarter-hour markings rests on the decorative plate, a characteristic of the earliest Comtoise clocks with pressed decorative plates, developed by Paget from 1810 onward.
Compare this clock with clock Nr. 142 CUM. The decorative plates are identical, but the dials differ. These two dial types appeared concurrently between 1810 and 1820. The dial with Roman numerals and quarter-hour markings represents the new type of the 19th century and is therefore never found in conjunction with a rooster casting motif.
Dial signed: Berthet Hger (Horloger) à St.Vile
Dial diameter: 245
Case dimensions: 250 x 241 x 147 HxWxD
Movement dimensions: 378 x 243 x 170 HxWxD
Pendulum length: 1280 (all measurements in mm)
