Late 18th century The mahogany veneered case executed in Louis XVI style, decorated with flower heads and fluted corinthian columns, the hood with similar decoration and crowned by the figures of Chronos, Mercury, and Fame, the silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, windows showing the day of the week, the date, the lunar phase, and the tides, signed ‘Jacobus Waten & Zoon Amsterdam’, the eight-day mechanism with anchor escapement, chiming on two bells, on the whole hour and half hour in full, with alarm mechanism.