| A mid 19th Century crab tooth duplex with mock pendulum dial in a gilt metal full hunter case. Richly engraved keywind gilt bar movement, large symmetrical pierced central bridge. Suspended going barrel, plain cock with blue steel regulator. Plain three arm steel balance blue steel spiral
hairspring. "Chinese" crab tooth duplex escapement. Polychrome enamel dial with seconds beating centre seconds. A small chapter of Roman numerals is made to represent the dial of a clock place on a mantlepiece below which a mock pendulum bob can be seen oscillating in the hearth when the watch is running. Blue steel hands. Engraved gilt full hunter case, wound and set through the cuvette inscribed (erroneously) "Patent Lever -
French".
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