A Louis XV gilt-mounted mahogany provincial regulateur de parquet, circa 1740 

11½-inch dial with enamel cartouche numerals and every minute numbered, the velvet-covered centre with a subsidiary seconds dial, the movement with weight-driven going train and Chevalier de Bethune escapement, separately suspended 2m pendulum with two-piece rod and large lenticular bob, spring barrel to the striking train with numbered outside count wheel striking on a bell, signed on the backplate Le Noir A Lyon, the restored and altered case with Minerva surmount above foliate mounts, the base with a glazed lenticle, on gilt paw feet,

266cm. 104¾in. high