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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 154568, member: 360&quot;]I love carriage clocks. I have a small one of my own that sits on the bookcase next to my piano. I&#039;ve wanted one for almost as long as I&#039;ve been alive, and when I finally got the chance to buy one, I JUMPED on it! </p><p><br /></p><p>They were invented in around 1790-1810 (the date varies depending on where you read it) by the legendary watchmaker Abraham Louis Breguet, for the French Army (at the request of Napoleon, no less), so they&#039;ve definitely been around for a bloody long time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most carriage clocks that are around today would&#039;ve been built in the period between the second half of the 1800s up to around 1920/30. They were extremely popular as gifts, presents, one-off luxury purchases and such. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours says quite clearly &quot;MADE IN FRANCE&quot;, so that would suggest early 20th century to me, when country-of-origin laws were tightened at around that time. That said, the vast majority of carriage clocks WERE made in France, anyway. Some were made in Switzerland and a few were made in England and the States from what I&#039;ve read, but almost all the rest were made in France. It&#039;s where they were invented, so it&#039;s hardly surprising, I guess. </p><p><br /></p><p>Servicing and cleaning the clock is definitely possible, but it&#039;s probably gonna cost a bit. I asked a clock guy in my town what it&#039;d cost me if I asked him to service mine (11 jewel mechanical one made in around 1980) and he said depending on what needs to be done (and what the customer asks for), it starts at $300. For the REALLY complicated carriage clocks it can shoot WAY up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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