The substantial shaped 'plates' cast with a polished, bevelled edge and terminating in a pair of scrolls, on ornately shaped brass base fully signed in Gothic style copperplate script across the front edge, the pierced dial typically numbered with Arabic numerals within a dotted-minute border, the movement with a going barrel of two week duration, high count pinions and very delicate wheels of five and six crossings, with deadbeat escapement to a blued steel pendulum rod with halberd-shaped cast brass bob, regulated via a knurled screw at the apex of the frame, to the rear of the frame, a series of three pulleys linked by intricate fusee chain combine to drive the hands, the whole frame raised on a brass-bound ebony base.

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