A9447

Gold Quarter Repeating Duplex by Frodsham

£4,500.00

Signed  Frodsham & Son Gracechurch Street London
Hallmarked London   1846
A mid 19th Century English quarter repeating duplex by Frodsham in a gold open face case.
Diameter   45 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A mid 19th Century English quarter repeating duplex by Frodsham in a gold open face case.  Gilt three quarter plate keywind movement with going barrel. Engraved cock with polished steel regulator, compensation balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Duplex escapement, brass escape wheel, pivots with endstones.  Slide quarter repeating on two polished steel gongs. Signed white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, gold hands.  Engine turned 18 carat open face case, recessed gold slide in the ribbed middle close to the pendant.  Wound and set through the signed and numbered gold cuvette, maker's mark “AN” in a rectangle and number corresponding to that on the movement.  

In very good overall condition.  The polished steel stud for the hairspring is very unusual, the hairspring being clamped between jaws rather than being fixed by a pin