A Victorian skeleton timepiece with detent escapement H. Bright, Leamington. Circa 1870 The silvered chapter ring with gothic numerals and pierced blued steel hands, large integral seconds ring at VI, the pierced brass scroll frame with five double-screwed pillars, chain fusee with maintaining power positioned high above the spring barrel, all wheels with five crossings, the detent escapement on the backplate with ebonised wood-rod pendulum, the base of the frame signed H. Bright Leamington on a silvered plaque, resting on an associated oval inlaid rosewood base with glass dome 25 in. (63.5 cm.) high over dome
A Victorian skeleton timepiece with detent escapement H. Bright, Leamington. Circa 1870 The silvered chapter ring with gothic numerals and pierced blued steel hands, large integral seconds ring at VI, the pierced brass scroll frame with five double-screwed pillars, chain fusee with maintaining power positioned high above the spring barrel, all wheels with five crossings, the detent escapement on the backplate with ebonised wood-rod pendulum, the base of the frame signed H. Bright Leamington on a silvered plaque, resting on an associated oval inlaid rosewood base with glass dome 25 in. (63.5 cm.) high over dome
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