Henri Motel

 · brass movement frame, signed and numbered 119 Hri Motel, Hger de la Marine Rlel, fusee with Harrison’s maintaining power, finger stop-work, bevelled gear wheel to fusee enabling front winding through dial plate, subsidiary frame with steel pillars carrying third wheel, jewelled fourth and escape wheel, Motel’s pivoted detent escapement, impulse roller jewel with steel protection strip, two-arm bi-metallic balance with compensation weights, blued steel helical spring with stud levelling screws, pin extending beneath one balance arm for balance locking work, blued steel helical spring

· silvered regulator-type dial signed and numbered Hri Motel, Hger de la Marine Rlel N 119, with subsidiaries for hours above seconds, minutes calibrated to the dial’s edge with Arabic numeral 5-minute markers, all hands blued steel

· brass bowl gimballed in two-tier mahogany box with sliding cover revealing glazed aperture, brass lozenge-shaped plaque inscribed N 119, bowl and gimbal simultaneously secured via locking arm with bolt assembly, tipsy key with square for balance brake assembly operation

No. 119 

dial diameter 82mm

box 160mm x 160mm x 140