The dial is also in excellent condition, there is some evidence of old restoration.

Click the video clip below to hear the bell and watch the clock running!Ĭondition of the case is excellent, beautifully clean and bright with hardly any wear or discolouration and there are no losses. It runs for 8 days and strikes the hours and halves on a bell. It is in excellent clean and running condition having been fully overhauled by our clockmaker. Marti exhibited his clocks regularly at expositions in Paris, where he won a Mention of Honour in 1839, a. Omega - Watchmaker Rolex - Watchmaker Japy Freres - Clockmaker Winterhalder & Hoffmeier - Clockmaker Samuel Marti of Paris - Clockmaker Jaeger LeCoultre - Clockmaker Gustav Becker - Clockmaker Jean Vincenti - Clockmaker Tavannes Watch Company - Clockmaker Doxa / Georges Ducommun, Fabriques Doxa - Clockmaker Elliots of Croydon - Clockmaker. The Le Roy name is well known in French Horology with many patents, inventions and improvements by Le Roys particularly marine chronometers. A renowned clockmaker in Paris in the second half of the 1800s, Samuel Marti established his business in 1841 in Montbliard, in Doubs, a department in northeast France that was the birthplace of many of the most prestigious clockmakers. Auguste Le Roy is listed Tardy Dictionnaire Des Horlogers having obtained a patent in 1867 for a water clock. The dial is also signed Auguste Le Roy, Horloger Breveté (Patent Clockmaker). The back plate has the Marti mark and the mark of the retailer Le Roy of Paris.

The French movement is of high quality and is by Samuel Marti. The dial is cream with blue lettering and has a separate minute ring and convex glass the finely fretted hands are original.

It is in stunning condition, finely modelled with good original gilding. It is Rococo in style, asymmetric with acanthus shoulders and a large acanthus leaf top. About A very decorative antique French gilt bronze Cartel wall clock by Samuel Marti.

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