Gilt and horn pair cased verge with mock pendulum Circa 1700

An English gilt and horn pair cased verge with mock pendulum, circa 1700. Deep full plate fire gilt movement with Egyptian pillars, fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates, gilt winged cock with glazed aperture to reveal the blue steel pendulum bob on the balance, pierced and engraved foot, the table engraved with instructions about regulating the watch ‘to increase the figure will make it go faster & to decrease it slower’, engraved on the top plate below the balance the index in Roman numerals and ‘Slower – Faster’, unusual exposed blue steel regulator wheel. Signed silver champlevé dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, blue steel hands. Plain inner case, the outer covered with horn.
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Diameter: 57 mm
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Depth: 19 mm
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Signed: John Shaw Holborn
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John Shaw, Holborn. Apprenticed 1672, Clockmakers Company 1682 and master 1712-1715.