A9335

Gold Digital Dial Cylinder

£1,800.00

Signed  French
Circa   1840
A  slim early 19th Century French cylinder with digital hours in a gold open face case.
Diameter   52 mm         

Out of stock

Description

A  slim early 19th Century French cylinder with digital hours in a gold open face case.  Keywind gilt Lepine calibre movement with suspended going barrel.  Plain cock with blue steel regulator, plain three arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring.  Polished steel cylinder, steel escape wheel.  Unusual engine turned silver dial with subsidiary seconds, offset minutes and an aperture above displaying the hours in Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Slim engine turned gold open face case, wound and set through the plain gold cuvette.