Samuel Marti Gilt Bronze Cartel Wall Clock ~ French - Circa 1890 ~ ~~ Excellent condition, fully overhauled ~~ A very decorative antique French gilt bronze cartel wall clock by Samuel Marti. It is Rococo in style, asymmetric with acanthus shoulders and a large acanthus leaf top. Acanthus flowers hang below the dial. It is in stunning condition, finely modelled with good original gilding.

The dial is cream with blue lettering and has a separate minute ring and convex glass the finely fretted .

The French movement is of high quality and is b y Samuel Marti. The back plate has the Marti mark and the mark of the retailer Le Roy of Paris. The dial is also signed Auguste Le Roy, Horloger Breveté (Patent Clockmaker). Auguste Le Roy is listed Tardy Dictionnaire Des Horlogers having obtained a patent in 1867 for a water clock. The Le Roy name is well know in French Horology with many patents, inventions and improvements by Le Roys particularly marine chronometers. It is in excellent clean and running condition having been fully overhauled by our clockmaker. Pendulum is original. It runs for 8 days and strikes the hours and halves on a bell. Click the video clip below to hear the bell and watch the clock running!

Condition of the case is excellent, beautifully clean and bright with hardly any wear or discolouration and there are no losses. The dial is also in excellent condition, there is some evidence of old restoration. 

   
Samuel Marti clockmaker's mark and Leroy of Paris retailers mark on the movement backplate

Complete with original pendulum, bell and a suitable key. Full setting up instructions supplied if required.

Click the movie player below to see the this actual clock run -
(large file, may take a moment to start).