Desbois & Wheeler, Grays Inn Passage. The movement by Handley & Moore, number 2906The case with leopard's head ring handles, geometric brass inlay and painted highlights, raised on ball feet, the signed 7.75 inch Roman dial with good matching steel hands, the movement with lancet shaped plates united by five knopped pillars, the anchor escapement with long pendulum with stirrup centre section to accommodate fine regulation via a screw and thread, terminating in a lacquered brass bob with locking screw, rack striking on a bell, the strike/not strike lever mounted on the signed backplate. Together with a mahogany wall bracket with single support featuring inlaid decoration. 50cms (20ins) high (2)