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Description: | A gilt calender clock, a watch with an alarm. The watch has a verge escapement on a double-headed alarm hammer, with a fusee (originally gut, now chain) to the verge.
gilt brass case; bell doubtful silver; minute hand poker/arrow, hour hand secured to inner numbered date ring; alarm set by outer ring, 24 hour dial Roman figures, minute ring Arabic; Arabic dials ungilded; style of 2's on date ring 2, but on alarm Z, as on minute numbers; monogram J 1st R; steel locking plate running in recess in backplate; hairspring 3 + turns and regulator in 1599 (circa); deep engraving on backplate, shallow on cock; cock secured by screw and washer; turned pillars; fusee and chain; main hand for gut, fusee brass but all gearing steel; 3 spoke wheels; large escapement wheel; striking barrel checker engraved fixed steel wheels, cut from solid brass fan regulator; alarm barrel fixed, steel gears to verge escapement with double hammer; movement secured to dial by 2 locking plates; leaf spring on fusee stop; brass key with steel shank | Subjects: | Timekeeping Scientific Instruments | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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