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Lot 423 D α

An Officer's carriage clock

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 18:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 7.500 € - 8.000 €
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An Officer's carriage clock

Ormolu clock, white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, gilt and blued hands. Day-running movement with thread suspension, alarm function, single hourly striking, double quarter-hourly striking with four hammers to a gong. Signed to the dial "Ravené BERLIN". Chips to the winding holes, the alarm mechanism in need of repair. The winding and repeater threads lacking. H 22.5 cm.
Berlin, Samuel Frederic Ravené, late 18th C.

Samuel Frederic Ravené is recorded in Berlin as of 1794 and there earned the title of court clockmaker to Frederick William III of Prussia.

Literature

Cf. an almost identical carriage clock illus. in: Maurice, Schöne Uhren des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1990, no. XVII.