A large late nineteenth century Swiss white marble and gilt brass perpetual calendar mantle clock, Aubert & Klaftenberger, Geneva, the case with moulded cornice over bevelled glass panels to a marble stepped base., the three part enamel dial with concentric seconds, enclosing the visible brocot escapement and Roman subsidiary dial, set above both dials within an engraved mask of elaborate foliate scrolls on a matted ground., the movement with rectangular plates united by four pillars and rack strike on a bell, with a gridiron type pendulum. Once in the drawing room of Barford, from 1954