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Cast ornamental feet. \r\n\r\nDial and Movement: Movement with horizontal dial and brass plates 10.2 cm square. Chapter-ring engraved on dial, 10.2 cm diameter, with hours in Roman, each with a touch-pin, and half- and quarter-hour marks. Central rotating alarm disc 4.8 cm diameter, with arabic hours (Germanic 2's). The whole dial and alarm disc decoratively engraved except for the two rings of figures. Rectangular hole outside X1/2 for inspecting the number on the count-wheel (hour last struck). Signed between VII and V on chapter-ring LEVY AIX in neat capitals later than 1680 and not quite in keeping with the rest of the dial. Ornate, pierced brass hand, possibly not original. Going train with brass spring-barrel and fusee and contrate wheel; the remaining wheels of the train are of iron. Verge escapement. Decorative brass balance-cock and bristle regulator arm, the latter now cut off short. Its pointer moving over a scale numbered 1 to 6 in arabic. \r\nThe cock with a later, superposed plain brass bridge carrying a regulator arm with a pair of downward-projecting pins between which the (also later) balance-spring passes. Plain steel balance-wheel, probably original. \r\nTocking-plate striking train with brass resting-barrel, pierced decorative detent, count-wheel and fanfly sheets, the remaining wheels of steel. \r\nThe count-wheel coaxial with the great wheel of the striking train, and outside the backplate. \r\nAlarm train of steel throughout. The alarm bell hammer probably new. The movement back-plate signed in a very small escutcheon AM W. This plate also signed along bottom edge LEVY AIX in lettering similar to that on the dial. (Levy presumably added the balance-spring and regulator and cut short the bristle arm, and probably renewed the contrate wheel of the going train). \r\nThe removable breastplate has three winding holes, the going train hole labelled W; the striking train S; the alarm train L.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"},{"text":"iron","id":"AAT11002"},{"text":"steel","id":"AAT133751"},{"text":"gilt-bronze","id":"x35084"},{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Gilt-bronze case, brass plates, pierced brass hand, iron wheels of train, plain steel balance-wheel, steel alarm train. 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