JAMES BOWIE, KIRKCALDY
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A REGENCY CROSSBANDED AND CHEQUER-STRUNG MAHOGANY LONGCASE DOMESTIC REGULATOR
James Bowie, Kirkcaldy
The case on ogee bracket feet, reeded quarter columns flanking the rectangular trunk door with brass escutcheon, brass-capped reeded three-quarter columns to the flat-top hood, the circular silvered Roman and Arabic dial signed James Bowie Kirkcaldy in the plain centre with decorated winding hole, elaborately pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, counterpoised blued steel seconds hand, the movement of highly unusual format with serpentine-form plates, four pillars, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with the 'scape wheel positioned close to the inside of the backplate with its own separate cock, woodrod pendulum
6 ft. 6 in. (198 cm.) high
James Bowie, Kirkcaldy
The case on ogee bracket feet, reeded quarter columns flanking the rectangular trunk door with brass escutcheon, brass-capped reeded three-quarter columns to the flat-top hood, the circular silvered Roman and Arabic dial signed James Bowie Kirkcaldy in the plain centre with decorated winding hole, elaborately pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, counterpoised blued steel seconds hand, the movement of highly unusual format with serpentine-form plates, four pillars, Graham-type deadbeat escapement with the 'scape wheel positioned close to the inside of the backplate with its own separate cock, woodrod pendulum
6 ft. 6 in. (198 cm.) high