A Victorian silver-gilt and shagreen perpetual calendar travel timepiece with moonphase Jump, London, No.2925. Dated 1898 The hump-back case on silver-gilt bun feet and with silver-gilt mouldings, with glazed front panel and sliding rear door with shuttered hand-set and winding apertures and engraved AD 1898 on the reverse, the arched gilt-brass engine-turned mask with milled bezels to silver chapter discs, the engine-turned silver main dial with eccentric Roman chapter ring with gold Breguet style hands, lunette aperture above with gilt and blued steel revolving moonphase, signed JUMP LONDON on two small rectangular reserves, with subsidiary engine-turned silver dials beneath for day and date and blued steel arrow-head hands, flanking a rectangular aperture showing the month on a revolving drum, the single chain fusee four pillar movement with arched plates, cut-away deeply at the top to accommodate the high quality gilt platform for the lever escapement with cut bimetallic balance, with jewelled contrate wheel, maintaining power, the back plate signed Jump and with punched number 2925 to the front plate 6in. (15cm.) high
A Victorian silver-gilt and shagreen perpetual calendar travel timepiece with moonphase Jump, London, No.2925. Dated 1898 The hump-back case on silver-gilt bun feet and with silver-gilt mouldings, with glazed front panel and sliding rear door with shuttered hand-set and winding apertures and engraved AD 1898 on the reverse, the arched gilt-brass engine-turned mask with milled bezels to silver chapter discs, the engine-turned silver main dial with eccentric Roman chapter ring with gold Breguet style hands, lunette aperture above with gilt and blued steel revolving moonphase, signed JUMP LONDON on two small rectangular reserves, with subsidiary engine-turned silver dials beneath for day and date and blued steel arrow-head hands, flanking a rectangular aperture showing the month on a revolving drum, the single chain fusee four pillar movement with arched plates, cut-away deeply at the top to accommodate the high quality gilt platform for the lever escapement with cut bimetallic balance, with jewelled contrate wheel, maintaining power, the back plate signed Jump and with punched number 2925 to the front plate 6in. (15cm.) high
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