A French one-piece carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with a button to the top repeating the last hour at will, signed to the base of the backplate with the name of the retailer E. Dent, Paris along with the serial number 873, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel trefoil hands and with a repeat signature, the one-piece brass case having a turned carrying handle, height 14cms, handle up; 12.5cms, handle down.