Fran. Smith, London The case with inverted caddy top and decorated all over with Chinoiserie scenes on a mellow red ground (the decoration probably early 20th century), the 6.75inch square brass dial with winged cherub's head spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks, finely matted centre with two ringed winding squares (one a dummy), decorated date and chamfered mock pendulum aperture, with good blued steel hands and a Roman alarm-setting dial, the gut fusee movement with tall plates untied by four knopped pillars, knife-edge verge escapement and a separate alarm train wound from the side, the backplate engraved with a human face below the wheatear reserve signed Frank Smith, London, within a pattern of symmetrical foliate scrolls
Fran. Smith, London The case with inverted caddy top and decorated all over with Chinoiserie scenes on a mellow red ground (the decoration probably early 20th century), the 6.75inch square brass dial with winged cherub's head spandrels framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks, finely matted centre with two ringed winding squares (one a dummy), decorated date and chamfered mock pendulum aperture, with good blued steel hands and a Roman alarm-setting dial, the gut fusee movement with tall plates untied by four knopped pillars, knife-edge verge escapement and a separate alarm train wound from the side, the backplate engraved with a human face below the wheatear reserve signed Frank Smith, London, within a pattern of symmetrical foliate scrolls
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