Lot 110
FRENCH GILT BRASS PENDULE DE VOYAGE BY BERTHOUD
MID 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
£10,250
Description
the reeded handle with swan neck supports above a bevelled glass panel and projecting moulded cornice and frieze with foliate mounts, over a silvered dial with Roman chapter enclosing an up/down quadrant above the VI and subsidiary seconds dial above the XII, signed BERTHOUD, the dial flanked by reeded Corinthian columns, eight day movement with spring detent platform, with remontoir, hour striking on a gong
Dimensions
26.5cm high excluding handle
Footnote
Provenance:
Property from a private Scottish collection of clocks
Purchased Robert Burnett, Nottingham, 1980