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Long-case regulator in walnut case with glazed trunk door; hood with break-arch pediment decorated with egg and dart moulding, fluted corner pillars with Corinthian capitals and central gilded ball finial on a plinth; gilded-brass dial with matted centre and cherub spandrels; applied silvered-brass chapter-ring with Roman hour numerals, minutes numbered every fifth division in Arabic and with integral subsidiary seconds dial; blued-steel hands; massive weight-driven eight-day movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Continental stop-work; four-legged gravity escapement with zinc-iron rod and lead bob compensation pendulum.
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