A grande sonnerie carriage clock in a gilded corniche case with alarm, petite sonnerie, silent and repeat functions, with a fine white enamel dial with Roman numerals and blue steel Breguet hands and a secondary dial below for setting the alarm.The term grande sonnerie refers to the system the clock uses to strike the hours and quarters, the hour last struck is also repeated at each quarter hour, for instance at 4:15 the clock strikes once on the higher chime to indicate the quarter hour, followed by four strikes on the lower chime to indicate the hour, this is continued with two chimes on the higher gong at half past and four chimes on the lower gong to indicate the previous hour struck and three chimes on the hight to indicate the forty five minute mark plus four chimes for the previous hour. This means that you can tell the time to the nearest fifteen minutes by just listening to the clock.This clock can also be switched to petite sonnerie, so that the clock will just strike...