Jas McCABE, Royal Exchange, London. No 14828
Good English Lepine movement by this famous firm, circa 1840, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£25.00
Slim gilt movement with standing/hanging barrel, the 12-size hollow-back frame, as usual, bearing the firm’s IMC stamp and numbered. Duplex (frictional rest) escapement. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Enamel dial. 41 mm diameter, just 7 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
James McCabe, one of the leading London watchmakers of the period – see the article on the firm by Paul Hackamack published in Antiquarian Horology, Vol 10, 1977.
Dial with some faint hair cracks, hands and motion work lacking and staff broken and lacking its jewelled roller. Otherwise complete but not of course working.
Item reserved
Description
Slim gilt movement with standing/hanging barrel, the 12-size hollow-back frame, as usual, bearing the firm’s IMC stamp and numbered. Duplex (frictional rest) escapement. Gold balance, spiral balance-spring. Enamel dial. 41 mm diameter, just 7 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
James McCabe, one of the leading London watchmakers of the period – see the article on the firm by Paul Hackamack published in Antiquarian Horology, Vol 10, 1977.
Dial with some faint hair cracks, hands and motion work lacking and staff broken and lacking its jewelled roller. Otherwise complete but not of course working.