An engraved carriage clock attributable to Delepine-Barrois: the eight-day duration movement having a platform cylinder escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with a hand setting arrow in the style of Delepine-Barrois and with a subsidiary alarm, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, Arabic five-minute markings and blued steel moon hands, the engraved corniche case with gorge-style corner mouldings and a three-bail handle, height 17.5cms handle up; 15cms handle down.* Biography Boromé Delépine and first partner Charles Canchy took over the clockmaking business of Honore Pierre-Cesar Honore Pons in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont in the mid-1840s taking on the Pons house and workshops and continued to use the Pons roundel trademark on their movements for many years. Following the death of Canchy in 1857 Delépine went into partnership with Barrois making carriage clock blancs roulants, the rough movements for others to finish. Charles Boromé Delépine died on the 6th of September 1892 and his son, the well-known chronometer maker Emile Delépine, took over the running of the business. Emile died in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont on December the 9th 1905, whereupon the business, including the original Pons house and workshops, were taken over by their near-neighbours and carriage clock makers from across the road, Couaillet Frères.* Notes Reference Leigh Extence French Carriage Clocks Pub. NAWCC 2017