Lot n° 53
James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, 2451
Surmounted by a turned carrying handle over a large bevelled observation window and plunge repeat button passing through the panel to the rear right-hand side, the moulded columns set between heavy bevelled glass panels to the sides, and to the rear a solid panel with shutters protecting the hand-setting and twin winding square arbors, further set with a slide to control the strike/not strike, and a finely engraved regulation scale marked0-7. The moulded base on four low-profile feet.
The 2.6 inch rectangular one-piece silvered dial with Roman numerals framed within a minute band with dotted five-minute markers. Signed below VI James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London 2451, with blued steel Breguet-style hands.
The twin chain fusee movement with maintaining power to the underslung English lever escapement with gilt monometallic balance set on a large cruciform-shaped platform, striking and repeating the hours on a blued steel gong, the backplate fully signed and numbered. Ticking and striking. Sold together with original fitted velvet-lined travel case and numbered double-ended setting and winding key. 19cms (7.5ins) high.
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