SIGNED JOHN ARNOLD, LONDON, NO. 217, CIRCA 1770
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Arnold. A silver paircase quarter repeating cylinder pocketwatch
Signed John Arnold, London, no. 217, circa 1770
The frosted gilt chain fusee movement with pierced cock, diamond endstone, three armed steel balance with cylinder escapement, repeating hours and quarters on a bell by depressing the pendant, under signed and numbered dust cap, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands, in later plain silver paircase, casemaker's mark CBH, movement signed and numbered
49 mm. diam.
London 1840
Signed John Arnold, London, no. 217, circa 1770
The frosted gilt chain fusee movement with pierced cock, diamond endstone, three armed steel balance with cylinder escapement, repeating hours and quarters on a bell by depressing the pendant, under signed and numbered dust cap, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands, in later plain silver paircase, casemaker's mark CBH, movement signed and numbered
49 mm. diam.
London 1840
Literature
Hans Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham 1763-1862, 1997, pp. 47 and 48