# Carriage clock

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A **carriage clock** is a small, spring-driven [clock](/source/Clock), designed for travelling, developed in the early 19th century in [France](/source/France). The first carriage clock was invented by [Abraham-Louis Breguet](/source/Abraham-Louis_Breguet) for the [Emperor Napoleon](/source/Emperor_Napoleon) in 1812. The case, usually plain or gilt-brass, is [rectangular](/source/Rectangular) with a carrying [handle](/source/Handle) and often set with [glass](/source/Glass) or more rarely [enamel](/source/Vitreous_enamel) or [porcelain](/source/Porcelain) panels. A feature of carriage clocks is the *platform escapement*, sometimes visible through a glazed aperture on the top of the case. Carriage clocks use a balance and [balance spring](/source/Balance_spring) for timekeeping and replaced the larger pendulum [bracket clock](/source/Bracket_clock). The factory of [Armand Couaillet](/source/Armand_Couaillet), in [Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont](/source/Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont), France, made thousands of carriage clocks between 1880 and 1920.

A carriage clock has in the past been a traditional gift from employers to retiring or long-serving staff. However, in modern times, with changing work patterns and changing desires, this is much less the case.[1][2]

## Sources and references

- Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, *Carriage Clocks: Their History and Development*, Antique Collector's Club, 1974
- Emmanuelle Cournarie, *La mécanique du geste, trois siècles d'histoire horlogère à Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont*, Éditions PTC-Les Falaises, 2011 (French)
- Lolita Delesque and Marianne Lombardi, *Armand Couaillet, horloger et inventeur de génie*, Musée de l'horlogerie, juin 2013, 44 pp (French)

1. Crawford, Robert (25 November 2013). ["Top five long-service awards for employees"](https://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/top-five-long-service-awards-for-employees/). *Employee Benefits*

1. ["Time runs out for carriage clock"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4747372.stm). *BBC News*. 24 February 2006.

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