Delepine-Barrois a one-piece carriage clock the eight-day du...

Hammer

£90

Delepine-Barrois a one-piece carriage clock the eight-day duration, timepiece movement having a platform lever escapement with the backplate stamped with the Delepine-style hand setting arrow and numbered 5, the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the one-piece case with handle embossed to the underside with the case maker's initials H.A., height 13cm handle down, 16cm handle up. Biography Delepine-Canchy were carriage clockmakers in the horological town of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont having succeeded the renowned Honoré Pons in the mid-1840s. Charles Delépine's nephew Ludovic and wife Marie Barrois took on the business as Delépine-Barrois before the company was bought by the Couaillet brothers in 1912.