Description: Gilt brass, verge fusee movement (dial plate 41.8mm, 10.7mm between plates) with Tompion regulator, angled D-shaped cock. Featuring Egyptian pillars, lacking, motion work, dial and hands. The top plate retains the movement number and there is a scratched note ‘Dashwood 1698 Jan 8’, which probably refers to Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet 1658 – 1724. There is also a scratched mark for ‘Turpin 3rd October 1817’, probably a repair log.
Provenance: Ex. Christie’s, London, 7.10.1982, Lot 196
Published: Listed in: Evans J, Thomas Tompion, at the Dial and Three Crowns, Antiquarian Horological Society, Ticehurst, 2006, P: 93
Antiquarian Horology 