James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, No. 2677, Victorian. Excellent and unusually small gilt brass cased eight day going carriage clock striking hours and quarters on two gongs lever escapement. | Important Collectors Wristwatches Pocket Watches & Clocks | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 21st October 1995

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 146

James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, No. 2677, Victorian. Excellent and unusually small gilt brass cased eight day going carriage clock striking hours and quarters on two gongs lever escapement.

CHF 33,000 - 36,000

C. Gilt brass, glassed three sides and top. D. Sflvered brass, Roman chapters, "fleur de lys" bands, M. Brass rectangular, fusees and chairs to both trains. The striking train achieving botte hours and quarters. The going fusee with maintaining power. Platform lever escapement, underslung, single roller, pointed tooth wheel, cut bimetallic balance, flat balance spring, ruby endstone to balance cock, strike /silent. Signed on dial and movement. Dim.15,75 x 11,5 x 9 cm excluding handle

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Note: In exceptionally good condition. Original winding key. The presence of a sophisticated compensation balance suggests a date later than might be expected. Unfortunately, Mc Cabe's serial numbers, vis-à-vis dates of manufacture, remain far from being understood. Mc Cabe clocks more often have plain brass balances.