Description

An early 19^th Century English duplex by McCabe in a decorative gold open face case.  Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement with signed and numbered gilt dust cover.  Harrison’s maintaining power. Engraved masked cock with large diamond endstone, plain three arm gold balance with three screws, blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel regulator, silver sector index on the plate.  Duplex escapement with jewelled locking stone, large brass escape wheel, pivots with endstones.  Gold dial, engine turned centre and applied gold decoration at the edge repeating the minute markings.  Subsidiary seconds, Roman numerals, gilt seconds hand, blue steel Breguet hands.  Engine turned 18 carat open face case, the middle with deeply chased and engraved  cast foliate decoration repeated on the gold pendant and bow. Ribbed bezels, wound through the gold inner dome engraved with a coat of arms, maker’s marks “TW” and  “IMC” and number corresponding to that on the movement.