A beautiful English Victorian period carriage timepiece, the 8-day single fusee timepiece movement with platform lever escapement, rectangular plates, and wound and set from the rear.

The exceptional gilt brass pillared case, terminating in 4 finials at the top,  has profuse foliate engraving and panels depicting a seascape and sailing boats on the back door, Windsor Castle within a foliate surround to the right and a medieval castle on a rocky outcrop to the left.

The circular dial has a chapter ring with Roman hour numerals and steel poker hands centred with a bucolic river valley.

Date: circa 1850

Height: 5 ⅝ in (14.2 cm)

Width: 4 in (10.25 cm)

Depth: 4 ⅛ in (10.5 cm)

HW6448