James McCabe No.448. An engraved gilt-brass eight-day desk chronometer, London, circa 1856

An Important English Private Collection

James McCabe No.448. An engraved gilt-brass eight-day desk chronometer, London, circa 1856

4¾-inch silvered dial signed and numbered James McCabe, Royal Exchange,London, No.448, large diameter subsidiary seconds dial at VI and state-of-wind dial beneath XII, finely pierced blued steel fleur-de-lys hands, the chain fusee movement with maintaining power, Earnshaw's spring detent escapement mounted on a sub-frame and with cut bimetallic balance and free-sprung blued steel helical spring with terminal curves, signed and numbered on the backplate as the dial, the glazed bowl mounted in a pierced and engraved gimbal frame with a trunnion-style setting, the waisted supports with mirror-backed and glazed silvered panels finely engraved with flowers and foliate scrolls,  the heavily cast stand inset with a bevelled mirror, the whole finely chased and engraved with leaves and flowers

19cm by 25cm by 20.5cm; 7½in by 9¾in by 8in