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Circa 1845
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11 1/2 inches high
A very rare skeleton table regulator with balance wheel escapement. THE DIALS The unusual lay-out comprises three slender silvered hours, minutes and seconds rings, the seconds on the right with five minute divisions and counterbalanced blued steel hand, minute ring in the centre with blued steel spade hand and the hours on the left with similar hands and Roman numerals. MOVEMENT The wheel train is held within a pair of arched brass plates conjoined by four turned brass pillars with blued steel screws to the front and rear, the movement comprising a spring barrel with skeletonised end cap and click wheel to the front, chain and fusee, five wheel train with Scales's detached lever escapement with jewelled pallets and a handsome brass three-arm balance wheel with three peripheral blued steel timing screws, the balance staff pivoted on a turned brass base and oscillating via a long steel helical spring the lower end of which is pinned to the mouth of a gilt-brass serpent's mouth. THE FRAME The four well-turned brass columns to each corner have gentle entasis each surmounted by an acorn finial, the rectangular base platform is raised on four ball feet and engraved beneath the balance wheel Patent Detached Lever Edward Scales Old Church Yard Manchester.