110th Auction

2024/5/18

Lot 244

Louis George

A collection of 6 carriage clocks from different eras
An exquisite Berlin quarter hour repeating officer carriage clock with hour strike and alarm

Sold

estimated
1.7004.000 €
Price realized
3.500 €
specific features
Case
Brass, firegilt, engraved baroque décor, enamel cartouche with signature, engraved bracket feet, glazed sides, convex and concave curved top with handle, bell mounted in the base, pusher for repeating mechanism.
Dial
Enamel, radial Roman hours, central alarm disc with radial Arabic numerals, additional enamel regulating dial, pierced blued hands.
Movement
Rectangular-shaped brass movement, chain/fusee for going train, 2 barrels, 2 hammers, verge escapement, three-arm brass balance.
Diam.145 mm
Circa1780
Ctry.Germany


Eminent watchmaker Louis George (1743-1812) was a third generation descendant of a French Huguenot family who had fled to Berlin.
From 1769 on George delivered timepieces to Frederick the Great, his successor Frederick William II and also Frederick William II’s successor Frederick William III as "Horloger du Roy" (watchmaker to the king). He also supplied different types of watches and clocks, such as console clocks, pocket and deck watches, chronometers, odometers, pendulum clocks and mostly flute and organ clocks to other German rulers. He had business relations to Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the father of Henri-Louis Droz, as well as to Jean-Frédéric Leschot.