A9258

Silver English Ruby Cylinder

£1,100.00

Signed  Walker Gloucester St.
Hallmarked London   1832
A 19th Century English ruby cylinder in a silver open face case.
Diameter   46 mm       Depth   14 mm

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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