Lot n° 62
A. Bowman, London. The movement plates stamped HM 6307.
The case with shallow arch over a rippled moulding further set with ebonised quadrants and panels to the sides, the canted front angles echoed on the trunk which is set with a bevelled glass door framed in brass and revealing the weight, pendulum and beat scale, on a panel base with applied moulding and apron. The 12 inch circular silvered dial behind a heavy bevelled glass framed in brass, with outer Arabic minute band enclosing the large subsidiaries for running seconds (with Observatory marks) and Roman hours, with three blued steel hands.
The substantial tall shaped plates stamped HM and numbered 6307united by six knopped pillars and surmounted by a heavy brass 'platform' spanning across the top and with three pairs of notches to the far end from which to support the pendulum, the four wheel train each of five crossings and with adjustable end-stops, maintaining power and terminating in a deadbeat escapement and long steel crutch to a mercury jar pendulum reading against a silvered beat scale, driven by a brass weight. Together with a hood key, trunk key and crank winder. 199cms (78.5ins) high.
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