CHARLES OUDIN
Eight-day going carriage-clock, hour and half-hour striking, hour-repeater, alarm; Limoges-style enamel panels; silver, gilded brass and enamel

Silver (or silvered metal), gilded brass and enamel, key-winding, vertical rectangular-shape, eight-day going, carriage-clock, with three horological complications:

· Hour and half hour striking on one steel gong

· Hour-repeater on the same gong (activated by depressing the button on top of the cabinet)

· Alarm on the same gong via a small hammer (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock on the reverse of the movement)

“Fantasy” case with elaborated columns and Limoges-style enamel side-panels polychrome painted, showing an allegory of the Spring; one, with a fruit picking lady; the other, with a flower picking lady; the top with glazed aperture to view the escapement.

White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands. False-plate decorated en suite with a doe and its fawn.

Movement, 90 x 70 mm. (ebauche No. 2 941), two going barrels, plat-form escapement with lateral equilibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel flat hairspring, polished steel index-regulator.

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