The case surmounted by three finials over applied scrolls, the arched trunk door with acanthus leaf decoration flanked by canted corners, on a panelled base with ogee bracket feet, the 12 inch one piece silvered dial with outer Arabic minute band enclosing subsidiaries for running seconds and hours, all with blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with very substantial (5mm thick) brass plates united by four heavy pillars screwed to the front and back, with Harrison's maintaining power to the four-wheel train and high count pinions, the deadbeat escapement with jewelled arbor and finely executed steel and sapphire pallets. 232cms (91ins) high
The case surmounted by three finials over applied scrolls, the arched trunk door with acanthus leaf decoration flanked by canted corners, on a panelled base with ogee bracket feet, the 12 inch one piece silvered dial with outer Arabic minute band enclosing subsidiaries for running seconds and hours, all with blued steel hands, the weight driven movement with very substantial (5mm thick) brass plates united by four heavy pillars screwed to the front and back, with Harrison's maintaining power to the four-wheel train and high count pinions, the deadbeat escapement with jewelled arbor and finely executed steel and sapphire pallets. 232cms (91ins) high
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