| A rare 19th Century English lever with unusual six hour and minute dials in a silver case. Gilt three quarter plate keywind movement with fusee and chain. Harrison's maintaining power. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, diamond endstone. Compensation balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.
English table roller lever escapement. Unusual white enamel ring dial with subsidiary seconds, the hours marked from one to six in Roman numerals. Dark blue enamel centre with a single gilt hand engraved with the sun at its centre indicating the hour. Open the sprung back cover by depressing a button in the pendant reveals the white enamelled cuvette marked for the minutes. Through the aperture in the centre the short blue steel minute
hand travelling anti-clockwise above a white enamel disc. Plain silver open face case, the back engraved with a heraldic shield above the small engraved name "J H Warre 1866", maker's mark "DL" in a rectangle.
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