Lot n° 52
Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London
The heavy case surmounted by a crisply cast cruciform-section handle over four finials on matching columns, the glazed rear door opened by a key from below and set with shuttered winding and hand-setting apertures, each with engraved, hinged cover. The top and sides fitted with heavy bevelled glass panels.
The circular 3-inch white enamel Roman dial set centrally within an engine-turned gilt mask, with outer minute band displaying typical lozenge quarter-markers and triangular five-minute markers, a subsidiary seconds dial intersecting XII and a power reserve dial indicating the number of days left to run at VI, with open leaf-shaped blued steel hands.
Signed in an oval cartouche to the mask Dent, Watchmaker to the Queen, 33 Cockspur Street, London,
The substantial movement with chain fusee and maintaining power to the going train, terminating in a large gilt platform with freesprung helical balance spring with diamond endstone and cut and compensated bimetallic balance, set with eight timing screws to an Earnshaw detent escapement. Together with a later winding key. Running. 22cms (8.5ins) high.
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