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A rare mid 19th century brass-strung coromandel two day marine chronometer William White, Maker to the Admiralty, 50, Lowgate, Hull, No5652
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,500 inc. premium
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A rare mid 19th century brass-strung coromandel two day marine chronometer
William White, Maker to the Admiralty, 50, Lowgate, Hull, No5652
The case lacking the upper lid but with original recessed handles and applied nameplate, set to the interior of the mid-section with an applied printed label for Dobbie McInnes Ltd, Navigational and Engineering Instrument Makers, Glasgow stating that it was cleaned and repaired in December 1953, further set to the inner corner with a bracket for the original tipsy key, the signed and numbered 4 inch silvered Roman dial with minute band, state of wind indication and subsidiary dial for running seconds, the spotted movement with freesprung blued steel helical hairspring with diamond endstone to the cut and compensated bimetallic balance with circular timing weights, to an Earnshaw type detent escapement, chain fusee and maintaining power, wound through a sprung winding hole cover to the base, mounted in gimbals with locking arm The box 18cms (7ins) wide.
The case lacking the upper lid but with original recessed handles and applied nameplate, set to the interior of the mid-section with an applied printed label for Dobbie McInnes Ltd, Navigational and Engineering Instrument Makers, Glasgow stating that it was cleaned and repaired in December 1953, further set to the inner corner with a bracket for the original tipsy key, the signed and numbered 4 inch silvered Roman dial with minute band, state of wind indication and subsidiary dial for running seconds, the spotted movement with freesprung blued steel helical hairspring with diamond endstone to the cut and compensated bimetallic balance with circular timing weights, to an Earnshaw type detent escapement, chain fusee and maintaining power, wound through a sprung winding hole cover to the base, mounted in gimbals with locking arm The box 18cms (7ins) wide.