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Clock travel officer, housing gilt bronze apparent motion, repeating tone, demand and alarm, signed Gustave Sandoz * student Breguet, 147-148 Palais Royal Paris, enamel dial with Roman numerals, bizautées windows in its original case, XIXth century.
This clock is in very good condition, the case is itself a bit worn. It works perfectly, it was revised in 2006 (see bill of watchmaking in the last photo). It strikes the hour, half hour and on demand. The dial is signed and the movement on the side "Gustave Sandoz student Breguet Royal Palace 147-148 Paris". We have the key. The case is monogrammed LCD on top.
A note: the handle of the bag is broken, wear on the case, tiny hair on the small dial at the bottom of the clock, and micro-scratches slight wear time on the bronze, well look at photos.
Manufacturer of watches, jewelery and jewelery. From an old neufchâteloise family, he vows, as a teenager, to watchmaking. First guided by his father, who knows how to recognize and develop his natural gifts, and at the age of 13, by a leading watchmaker, Perusset, who completes his chronometer instruction, it also follows evening classes (math , algebra, trigonometry, mechanics, astronomy) and became very learned in the study of master watchmakers. He received in 1855 the prize of honor of the Polytechnic Association. He works for Lépine, Paul Garnier, and Breguet, and is influenced by Louis Parent.
Gustave Sandoz settled first Rue de la Monnaie, and in 1861, passing St. Anne, where he engages in Applied watch and science work that established his reputation in particular for remediation of former regulators and world map for the Conservatory of arts and crafts, instruments for photographic work Monckhoven, marine chronometers, astronomical clocks, mechanical studies on aviation, etc. The success led him to settle in 1865, at the Palais Royal. Encouraged by the rapid expansion of its business and perceiving that the watch does already offer a limited field the fine work he is deputy jewelery and watchmaking industries both artistic and delicate which he had prepared by drawing studies and aesthetics pursued with uncommon perseverance. The house he founded there knows a good growth and a high profile, particularly from 1876. President of numerous associations whose 'Trust in Art and Industry, Chairman of the Steering Committee of French exhibitions abroad, he was called to the preparation of the 1889 universal Exhibition.
Address: 147, Palais-Royal (Paris) (1891).
Biographical Sources: Émile Cuper Postel and Lucien Layus Gustave Sandoz 1836-1891, Paris, Le Vasseur and Co. Publishers, 1894.
