Couaillet frères, a French panelled carriage the eight-day d...

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£800 - £1,000

Couaillet frères, a French panelled carriage the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with a repeat button to the top allowing the last hour to strike at will, with alarm, the backplate stamped with the hand-setting arrow design as used by Couillet frères and numbered 19000, the gilt-brass dial having black Arabic numerals, decorative blued steel hands, a subsidiary alarm setting dial and an engine-turned mask, the Anglaise case with decorative moulding and set with translucent purple panels to either side decorated with raised work depicting a classical maiden to each panel, with a fluted handle, height 17.5cm handle up, 14.5cm handle down. * Biography Couaillet frères were one of the most prolific of the carriage clock makers at this period with workshops in the horological town of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont near Dieppe. In 1885 Armand Couaillet was employed by the prominent maker Albert Villon, but in 1892 he and his brothers Denis and Ernest set up their own workshops in the centre of the town as Couaillet frères. They increased the size of the concern when buying the house and workshops of Delépine-Barrois across the road in 1912. * Notes Reference Leigh Extence The Carriage Clock Makers of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, NAWCC 2020.