| An unusual mid 18th Century French alarm with champleve dial in a mahogany desk clock. Rectangular full plate gilt fusee movement. Finely pierced and engraved bridge cock with steel coqueret, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. Silver regulator dial with blue
steel indicator. Resting barrel for the verge type alarm mechanism, brass crown wheel. Steel double headed hammer striking a bell supported by a hoop in the hinged back door of the case. Silver champleve dial on a rectangular gilt engrave mask. Roman and Arabic numerals, small silver alarm disc at the centre, pierced gilt hands. Rectangular brass case with hinged back and glazed front door. In a purpose made contemporary
mahogany desk clock case with sliding front and back shutters. Basket top lacking a finial, four turned mahogany feet.
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