Henri Jacot, Paris a striking carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a silvered platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a gong, with a push button to the top allowing a repeat of the last hour at will, the backplate stamped with the trade mark for Jacot, the initials H.J. either side of a parrot on a perch and serial number 17215, the white enamel dial having black Roman hour numerals and blued steel spade hands, the brass corniche case with bevelled glass to all sides and surmounted by a typical three-bail handle, complete with original numbered key and travelling box, height 16cms (handle up), 14.5cms (handle down).* Biography Henri Jacot, born 1796, is first recorded as working in Paris in 1820 with an address at rue Montmorency 25, renumbered 31 in 1851. Following his death in 1868, the business was continued by his brother Julien Jacot who was succeeded in 1873 by his son and Henri Jacot's nephew, Albert Jacot who died in April 1926.* Notes Ref Leigh Extence, Henri Jacot, An Exhibition of Carriage Clocks, 2013.