A FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL EARLY GRANDE SONNERIE STRIKING CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE CLOCK Raingo Frères, Paris the one-piece case with sliding rear door and top glass, the silvered engraved dial signed Raingo Freres Paris , with Roman chapter ring and blued trefoil hands, alarm ring below, the twin going barrel movement with Earnshaw-type escapement with spring secured at the foot within an adjustable brass clamp assembly, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued helical spring with bridged balance-cock, jewelled discharging and impulse rollers, the strike on two bells on the backplate with unusual three-position selection slide at the top front of the case engraved with the abreviated strike sequences GS . PS . S . on the dial just beneath with repeat activated when slid to the far left, the plain backplate numbered 2 6in. (15.5cm.) high
A FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL EARLY GRANDE SONNERIE STRIKING CHRONOMETER CARRIAGE CLOCK Raingo Frères, Paris the one-piece case with sliding rear door and top glass, the silvered engraved dial signed Raingo Freres Paris , with Roman chapter ring and blued trefoil hands, alarm ring below, the twin going barrel movement with Earnshaw-type escapement with spring secured at the foot within an adjustable brass clamp assembly, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued helical spring with bridged balance-cock, jewelled discharging and impulse rollers, the strike on two bells on the backplate with unusual three-position selection slide at the top front of the case engraved with the abreviated strike sequences GS . PS . S . on the dial just beneath with repeat activated when slid to the far left, the plain backplate numbered 2 6in. (15.5cm.) high
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