nr. 594 cum
11-inch Comtoise clock, 8-day movement with anchor escapement and lyre pendulum or folded pendulum from around 1870/1880, one-piece embossed decorative plate with a large bezel in the decorative roof gable, in which a fluttering cuckoo is depicted. Decorative plate marked top left with DEPOSE and top right with CN. After 1871, the German company Carl Neufeld, based in Iserlohn, supplied many protected decorative plates to manufacturers of Comtoise clocks in the High Jura. Numerous models with the embossed initials CN exist. This model was also very suitable for creating additional inexpensive decorative motifs by exchanging the depiction in the upper bezel.
Half- and full-hour strike on bell with repetition of the hour strike. Enamel dial signed: 1re Qté Gtie (Premiere Qualité Garantie) ((Guaranteed First Quality)) E. FAUCHEUR & R. DELZANGLES St Savin-de-Blaye. Polychrome floral painting around the location name. Contemporary brass hands.
Dial diameter: 235
Cage dimensions: 315 x 276 x 151 HxBxD
Movement dimensions: 455 x 278 x 175 HxBxD
Pendulum length: approx. 1200 (all dimensions in mm)
