A9258
Silver English Ruby Cylinder
£1,100.00
Signed Walker Gloucester St.
Hallmarked London 1832
Hallmarked London 1832
A 19th Century English ruby cylinder in a silver open face case.
Diameter 46 mm Depth 14 mm
Out of stock
Description
A 19th Century English ruby cylinder in a silver open face case. Full plate fire gilt movement with gilt dust cover. Fusee and chain, Harrison's maintaining power. Pierced and engraved masked cock with diamond endstone. Pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc. Plain three arm gilt balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Ruby cylinder, large brass escape wheel, pivots with endstones. White enamel dial with subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel seconds hand, gilt hands. Plain silver open face case with ribbed middle, lateral steel stop lever, maker's mark “HV”.
A good English example of this rare escapement
