Duverdrey & Bloquel, Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont, an Anglaise...

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£180 - £220

Duverdrey & Bloquel, Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont, an Anglaise carriage clock having an eight-day duration movement with a platform lever escapement striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with a repeat button to sound the last hour at will, the backplate stamped with the hand-setting arrow style as used by Duverdrey & Bloquel of Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont and numbered 9864, with the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the Anglaise case with Corinthian capitals to the fluted columns and matching handle, a case style used by the better French carriage clock makers of the period, height 16.5cm/14cm, handle up/down. Biography Albert Villon set-up his first carriage clock making workshops in Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont in 1867 and by 1889 professed to be making some 20,000 carriage clocks per year. In 1887 Paul Duverdrey joined Villon as a director who in turn was joined by Joseph Bloquel after the death of Villon in 1910, the business becoming Duverdrey & Bloquel. The firm later became the alarm clock making concern Bayard.