Surmounted by a heavy bronze straight-sided bell mounted on a turned brass post set on the overhanging brass top plate, the shaped rectangular dialplate engraved with scrolling foliage around the rotating 3.5 inch twenty-four hour dial now marked in Roman hours twice I-XII, subdivided into ten minute divisions, with turned brass alarm setting hand and elaborately pierced single hand with tail, the weight-driven movement with trains of four wheels, each wheel of brass and with solid centres to steel high-count pinions, the going terminating in a pair of vertical crown wheels the shaped horizontal pallets linked to a side mounted pendulum (pendulum now lacking), the strike train with solid brass notched countwheel 26cms (10.25ins) high.
Surmounted by a heavy bronze straight-sided bell mounted on a turned brass post set on the overhanging brass top plate, the shaped rectangular dialplate engraved with scrolling foliage around the rotating 3.5 inch twenty-four hour dial now marked in Roman hours twice I-XII, subdivided into ten minute divisions, with turned brass alarm setting hand and elaborately pierced single hand with tail, the weight-driven movement with trains of four wheels, each wheel of brass and with solid centres to steel high-count pinions, the going terminating in a pair of vertical crown wheels the shaped horizontal pallets linked to a side mounted pendulum (pendulum now lacking), the strike train with solid brass notched countwheel 26cms (10.25ins) high.
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