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Index No. A7830 Decorative Gold Lever
A 19th Century lever with parachute suspension and temperature compensation curb in a gold open face case.  Keywind gilt Lepine calibre movement with suspended going barrel. Plain cock, blue steel regulator with temperature compensation curb and parachute suspension.  Compensation balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. English table roller lever escapement, polished steel escape wheel. Decorative engine turned gold dial, applied three colour gold decoration to the centre and edge.  Subsidiary seconds, applied gold Roman numerals, blue steel hands. Engine turned 18 carat open face case with chased and engraved bezels and pendant.  Wound and set through the signed and numbered gold cuvette.
SignedArnold Adams & Co    London   Detched lever - 13 Jewels - Parachute & Compensation
Circa 1830
Diameter 49 mm
Probably of Swiss origin bearing the name of an English retailer for sale in the American market.  It is odd in having both a temperature compensation curb and cut compensation balance.
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