CASE: the case with glazed stepped top, with gilt-brass banding, chamfered angles to front and arched glazed front and sides, the moulded foot on bun feet;
DIAL: the arched foliate engraved dial plate with engine-turned centre, the chapter ring with Roman hours and outer minute markers, signed to the lower edge 'Arnold / 84 STRAND / LONDON, 500', blued steel moon hands;
MOVEMENT: the four-pillar single chain fusée movement with gilt platform with underslung lever escapement and cut bimetalic compensated balance with flat blued steel helical spring, maintaining power, the backplate engraved 'Arnold / LONDON / 500'
7¹⁄₄ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 4³⁄₄ in. (12 cm.) wide; 4¹⁄₄ in. (10.8 cm.) deep

Christie's, South Kensington, 20 July 1994, lot 6.
The Vitale Collection;
Christie's, London, 26 November 1996, lot 214.
With Anthony Woodburn, Sussex, August 1998.

H. Staeger, 100 Years of Precision Timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham 1763-1862, Stuttgart, 1997, pp. 673-4.

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Hans Staeger dates the present clock to circa 1839.