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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 464

Nourry a Lyon, circa 1680. Fine and unusual brass two-train pendulum lantern clock with alarm and early seconds indication.

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

EUR 6,300 - 9,500 / USD 7,800 - 11,700

Sold: CHF 20,700

C. Brass posted frame, plain side doors, top bell beneath finial, brass bun feet.D. Brass, champlevé radial Romannumerals, outer minute divisions with one minute radial Arabic markers, the top with aperture for brass secondsdisc.M. Weight-driven, two-train, verge escapement with short-bob-pendulum, single-wheel alarm train withverge type hammer arbor, alarm on a bell.Signed on the dial.Dim. 21 cm.

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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

The Nourrys Were a well-known family of clockmakers in Lyon established by Pierre N. Nourry (1587 - 1672). His son Pierre (c. 1615 - 1686) became a clockmaker to the Court of Louis XIV in 1650.