| Description: | The gilt and shagreen covered outer case with five joint hinge and pique work to the bezel and rim, the gold inner case with pierced and engraved band depicting scrolling foliage, a landscape at the pendant and vignette and mask at the base, hallmarked 1711 under the bell, numbered 340 on the shoulder and with stirrup bow and push pendant operating the repeat. The gold champleve dial with Roman hour numerals, 'diamond' half hour divisions, outer minutes chapter and Arabic five minute divisions, the centre with 'cherub and swag' cartouche engraved, Tompion London' and having blued steel beetle and poker hands. The gilt, fusee movement with verge escapement, silvered regulator disc, turned baluster pillars and finely pierced and engraved balance cock with broad foot, repeating the hours and quarters with two hammers on a polished bell and bearing the signature on the plate, Tho. Tompion London 340. Date: Hallmarked 1711 Diameter: Outer case 55.5 mm: Inner case 47.5 mm |
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