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A Good late 19th century French Brass Gorge Cased carriage clock with hour repeat and engine-turned mask By Drocourt Drocourt, No. 7374
29 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,152 inc. premium
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A Good late 19th century French Brass Gorge Cased carriage clock with hour repeat and engine-turned mask By Drocourt
Drocourt, No. 7374
Surmounted by a rippled handle and large rectangular escapement window over bevelled glass panels within moulded columns, on a typical base. The white enamel Roman dial with blued steel moon hands in an engine-turned mask. The twin spring barrel movement with silvered jewelled English lever escapement, the inside of the front plate stamped 7374 and 14519, the backplate stamped with Drocourt's trademark to the left side, above the number 7374. Ticking, repeating, and striking on a coiled blued steel gong, the block stamped F.D., with a double-ended winding key. 19cms (7ins) high
Surmounted by a rippled handle and large rectangular escapement window over bevelled glass panels within moulded columns, on a typical base. The white enamel Roman dial with blued steel moon hands in an engine-turned mask. The twin spring barrel movement with silvered jewelled English lever escapement, the inside of the front plate stamped 7374 and 14519, the backplate stamped with Drocourt's trademark to the left side, above the number 7374. Ticking, repeating, and striking on a coiled blued steel gong, the block stamped F.D., with a double-ended winding key. 19cms (7ins) high
Footnotes
Pierre Drocourt established the business in 1853, receiving a Bronze medal from the Paris Exposition in 1867. In the first two years of the business, Drocourt advertised making both marble and bronze cased clocks (presumably meaning mantle clocks), as well as making inkwells. By 1855, he was specifically advertising making carriage clocks, in addition to marble, bronze and inkwell clocks.
His son, Alfred, took over the business in 1872, after his father's death. He expanded the business, subsuming the firm 'Holingue frères' from Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont in 1875, said firm having previously supplied rough movements to Drocourt's Parisian shop, as well as other clockmakers of the day. Drocourt continued to supply rough movements to the Holingue frères former customers, in addition to using them in his own clocks. In 1878, Drocourt received a silver medal at the Exposition, finally receiving a gold medal in 1889. The business was sold off in 1904, though there are some indications that new manufacturing officially ceased in 1900, the reserve stock was used up and then the workshop was sold. It is not known what became of Alfred, or when he died.
The lowest recorded serial number is 2 and the highest is 36340.
Bordeleau, P. (2020) 'Les Grands Moments de l'Horlogerie Française', Collectionner Des Horloges Anciennes. Available at: https://clockworks-horloges.com/300-histoire/307-france/
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