Alarm-mechanism, box, trade-card, pamphlet (BM 1958,1006.3085 5)

ALARM MECHANISM
For use with a pocket watch

A circular brass table, with a serrated edge, supported by three legs with paw feet, has a bell mounted beneath it. On top, in the middle of the table, is a brass dish covered with green velvet designed to receive an ordinary pocket watch. Above this, a hollow squared arbor (situated so that it can be located on the squared centre arbor of a watch) carries a flag which indexes a star wheel which releases the alarm mechanism at the time set on the silvered setting-disc below.
Attached to the table is a large silver barrel containing the mainspring.

The mechanism is contained in raw mahogany box containing instructions for operating the mechanism pasted inside the lid. Contained in the bottom of the box is an address card, an

advertising pamphlet and a hand-written note by Ilbert.