A gilt brass striking carriage clock with automaton singing bird with plain bat's wing balance to Chinese duplex platform, strike/repeat/alarm on bell on backplate with stamp for Japy Freres, white enamel Roman chapter disc with blued moon hands and sweep centre seconds, alarm disc below and within foliate engraved gilt mask, elaborate foliate cast two-tier case, the bird on naturalistic base moving up and down and from side to side by interconnecting rods to going barrel movement in base, the bird singing on the hour or at will via a lever to side of base