The ebony veneered case with glazed side panels having pierced gilt sound frets above, glazed front door with similar sound fret, standing on bun feet with brass folding handle. The 7 inch brass dial with winged cherub spandrels, silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals and outside minute indications at five minute intervals and cruciform half hour markers, the matted centre with mock pendulum and chamfered date aperture and with blued steel pierced hands, strike/not strike lever to the left of the dial.
The eight-day duration five pillar fusee movement with verge escapement sounding the hours on a bell with repeat cord. The very well engraved backplate profusely engraved with foliate scrolls and wheat-ear border centred by a loin’s mask and cartouche signed Ed. Faulkner, London.

Case height: 13 ½ inches (34.25 cm).

F.J Britten records Edward Faulkner from 1710-1735 and was Master of the Clockmakers’ Company 1734.