Description: Gilt brass, full plate fusee movement (45 mm diameter) with square baluster pillars and finely engraved balance cock. Diamond end stone. Signed back plate ‘Matt(he)w Dutton London 1617’. Graham-type cylinder (deadbeat) escapement with original banking (in top shell of steel cylinder, as in banking of duplex systems), brass escape with 16 teeth. Enamelled copper dial. Signed ‘Matt(he)w Dutton London’ gilt brass cap, embossed with letter ‘B’. (A)
Additional Info:
Elder son of William Dutton. The layout and construction of this movement respects almost all traditions of manufacture of George Graham and perfectioned by Thomas Mudge. Matthew, the son of Matthew will later use Lancashire style raw movements (see below). One of very few known movements by this maker. (A)
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