the ebonised case having an inverted bell top pediment above a glazed door with pierced sound frets enclosing a 7" brass arched dial with gilt pierced spandrels and silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring surrounding a matted centre with calendar aperture, the arch having a silvered name plaque and subsidiary strike/silent dial fronting a gilt eight-day double fusee movement with foliate engraved backplate and verge escapement striking the hours on a bell 49cm high