Yates & Hess. Lord Street Liverpool The triangular pediment flanked by ebony quadrants over a long glazed door flanked by canted corners on a tall base with applied ebonised moulding, the signed 12 inch silvered circular dial with outer Arabic minute ring (the hand counter-balanced behind the dial) enclosing the subsidiary seconds dial with Observatory marks and heavy Roman hour numerals, the weight driven movement with maintaining power, wheels of six crossings, high count pinions and terminating in a deadbeat escapement with unusually decorative pallets with sapphire insets, the long steel crutch with shaping to the tip acting on a substantial gilt-finished wooden rod pendulum with substantial bob reading against a silvered beat scale mounted to the internal backboard and visible through the glazed door. 2.03m (6ft 7.5ins) high.
Yates & Hess. Lord Street Liverpool The triangular pediment flanked by ebony quadrants over a long glazed door flanked by canted corners on a tall base with applied ebonised moulding, the signed 12 inch silvered circular dial with outer Arabic minute ring (the hand counter-balanced behind the dial) enclosing the subsidiary seconds dial with Observatory marks and heavy Roman hour numerals, the weight driven movement with maintaining power, wheels of six crossings, high count pinions and terminating in a deadbeat escapement with unusually decorative pallets with sapphire insets, the long steel crutch with shaping to the tip acting on a substantial gilt-finished wooden rod pendulum with substantial bob reading against a silvered beat scale mounted to the internal backboard and visible through the glazed door. 2.03m (6ft 7.5ins) high.
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