Height

7¾ inches

Case

The oak travelling box with dovetail joints and brass handle to the top, the interior fitted for the timepiece with two compartments above for the brass-cased lead weights.

Dial

The 4 by 5½ inch shallow breakarch brass hinged dial door signed Willm. Dutton London above a circular glazed aperture to the rectangular brass dialplate with silvered Roman chapter-ring, lozenge half-hour marks and delicately pierced blued-steel hand, the matted centre with large diameter silvered alarm setting disc.

Movement

The movement with 2⅞ by 3⅝ inch plates and four baluster pillars, going train with original verge escapement and short bob pendulum, the alarm with vertical crown wheel striking on a bell above the plates enclosed within brass shutters, brass suspension loop to the top and wall spurs below.

Duration

30-hour.

Provenance

Christies, 2nd July 2004, lot 65 (£15,684).

Literature

Garnier & Carter, The Golden Age of English Horology, 2015, p.254-255.

Escapement

Knife-edge verge.