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Lot 32

A rare mid 19th century mahogany cased two day marine chronometer
Richard Hornby and Son, Liverpool, No 1424

16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,500 - £3,500

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A rare mid 19th century mahogany cased two day marine chronometer

Richard Hornby and Son, Liverpool, No 1424
the three-tier box with applied brass side handles, the gimballed bowl with sprung winding shutter, the 4 inch signed and numbered silvered dial with Roman numerals and minute track enclosing the subsidiaries for state of wind and running seconds, the chain fusee movement with spotted plates united by four turned pillars, the freesprung blued steel helical spring with diamond endstone over a cut and compensated bimetallic balance, the arbors set in double screwed chatons 18cms (7ins) wide.

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