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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING DOMESTIC REGULATOR
William Poulton & Son. Watch Maker to His Majesty the King of Spain, London
the well-proportioned case with applied shaped panel to the double-footed plinth with elaborated scrolling foliate gilt-metal feet to the front, shaped break-arch trunk door flanked by stop-champfered fluted pilasters, the hood flanked by brass reeded gilt-metal capped detached columns supporting the pagoda top with architectural pediment and gadrooned flambeau urn finials, the gilt dial signed William Poulton & Son. Watch Maker to His Majesty the King of Spain, London within the matted centre beneath the flush-recessed narrow silvered chapter ring with counterpoised blued hand, silvered chapter ring with blued steel hands, foliate spandrels, (one lacking), similar mounts to the arch within an arced silver calendar ring with fly-back blued steel hand, subsidiary ring within engraved with the months and relevant number of days, latches to the dial feet of the substantial movement with shouldered plates and six massive latched pillars, all wheels end-capped and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, the pendulum with massive brass-faced bob with calibrated rating nut; brass-cased weight
7ft. 2½in. (220cm.) high
William Poulton & Son. Watch Maker to His Majesty the King of Spain, London
the well-proportioned case with applied shaped panel to the double-footed plinth with elaborated scrolling foliate gilt-metal feet to the front, shaped break-arch trunk door flanked by stop-champfered fluted pilasters, the hood flanked by brass reeded gilt-metal capped detached columns supporting the pagoda top with architectural pediment and gadrooned flambeau urn finials, the gilt dial signed William Poulton & Son. Watch Maker to His Majesty the King of Spain, London within the matted centre beneath the flush-recessed narrow silvered chapter ring with counterpoised blued hand, silvered chapter ring with blued steel hands, foliate spandrels, (one lacking), similar mounts to the arch within an arced silver calendar ring with fly-back blued steel hand, subsidiary ring within engraved with the months and relevant number of days, latches to the dial feet of the substantial movement with shouldered plates and six massive latched pillars, all wheels end-capped and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, the pendulum with massive brass-faced bob with calibrated rating nut; brass-cased weight
7ft. 2½in. (220cm.) high