A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK WITH CHRONOMETER ESCAPEMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1870
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring with shield chapters and subsidiary seconds to XII, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: scroll-pierced frames joined by four tapering pillars, single chain fusee with maintaining power, spring detent to large brass platform escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular temperature compensation weights, diamond end stones and blued steel helical spring, on marble plinth; glass dome (cracked); winding key
17 in. (43 cm.) high, excluding dome; 12½ in. (32 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep
A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK WITH CHRONOMETER ESCAPEMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1870
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring with shield chapters and subsidiary seconds to XII, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: scroll-pierced frames joined by four tapering pillars, single chain fusee with maintaining power, spring detent to large brass platform escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular temperature compensation weights, diamond end stones and blued steel helical spring, on marble plinth; glass dome (cracked); winding key
17 in. (43 cm.) high, excluding dome; 12½ in. (32 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep
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