A9611

Unusual 24 Hour Dial Lever

£550.00

Signed  Bi Hor Bte SGDG
Circa   1895
A late 19th Century lever with unusual twenty four hour dial in a nickle open face case.
Diameter   51 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A late 19th Century lever with unusual twenty four hour dial in a nickle open face case.  Nickelled split three quarter plate keyless movement with going barrel. Plain cock with polished steel regulator, uncut balance with overcoil hairspring. Club foot lever escapement.  Unusual signed restored white enamel dial with subsidiary seconds.  Inner chapter of black Roman numerals showing the hours to twelve with a short blue steel hand.  At the edge of the dial red Arabic numerals to twenty four hours indicated by a long blue steel hand. Plain nickle open face case.

An unusual variation of a twenty four hour dial with two separate hour hands rotating at a different rate