Charles Le Comte

“Le Comte à Paris” was the signature of clockmaker Charles Lecomte or Le Comte. After becoming a master on August 23, 1785, he had a workshop on the Quai des Ormes from 1789 to 1820 (see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris, 1971, p. 359). In the early years of the 19^th century, some of his pieces were mentioned as belonging to important Parisian collectors of the time, as for example in the posthumous inventories of Henry-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, Duke de Feltre and the wife of Raymond-Emmery-Philippe Joseph de Montesquiou, Duke de Fezensac.