Description
Descartes Mini-Morbier, 2004. This lovely and diminutive wag-on-the-wall is just 40 inches long, with a painted and signed porcelain dial and hand-painted brass repoussé face plate and pendulum. The brass, 8-day time-and-strike movement is by a German firm, SBS Feintechnik, who make movements for cuckoo clocks. It strikes a bell on top of the clock; a pull-handle behind the pendulum turns the strike on or off. It is running and striking, driven by two black wag-on-the-wall-style weights. It is missing its slide-in backplate. Descartes, a German company, made antique reproduction wall clocks; this one originally sold for $546. $150-$250.
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