This charming and elegant  “Capucine” Empire travelling clock is signed Pelard fils hr (horloger) à Grenoble, has an 8-day movement, anchor-escapement and rack striking on one bell, full on the whole hour and one stroke on the half hour, a repeating system and alarm, the signed enamel dial has Roman ciphers, steel hands for the hours and minutes, a brass hand for the alarm, a system to adjust the length of the pendulum above the XII, a well chiselled brass rim around the dial, the polished brass case with original doors, back plate, handle, bell, finials and feet. Height without handle 26 cm, circa. 1810.

“Capucine” travelling clocks are hardly ever signed: Pélard, Pierre at Grenoble: married in 1756 to the daughter of F. Molard, another clockmaker at Grenoble. Workshop at the Place du Palais. He died in 1788 at the age of 88. His son Pierre married in 1763 (Tardy – Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français).

Literature :
Tardy – La Pendule Française – Volume II – page 316
Allix – Carriage Clocks – page 24