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A good mid 19th century eight-day brass-bound mahogany marine chronometer Abraham Jackson, Liverpool. No. 164/9229),
13 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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A good mid 19th century eight-day brass-bound mahogany marine chronometer
Abraham Jackson, Liverpool. No. 164/9229),
The three part case with solid top lid set with brass corners and side pieces, the mid section with vacant cartouche, over a base with side handles. The 4 inch silvered Roman and Arabic dial with minute track framing the gold hands and subsidiaries for power reserve (marked 0-8, and running seconds with Observatory Marks and the fractional number, all enclosed by an angled sight ring and hung in a weighted gimballed bowl with locking arm. The chain fusee movement with maintaining power, the freesprung cut and compensated bimetallic balance set on a smaller sub-plate with diamond endstone in double screwed chatons, to an Earnshaw type detent escapement. Ticking, together with a case key and safety winding key. The case 19cms wide.
The three part case with solid top lid set with brass corners and side pieces, the mid section with vacant cartouche, over a base with side handles. The 4 inch silvered Roman and Arabic dial with minute track framing the gold hands and subsidiaries for power reserve (marked 0-8, and running seconds with Observatory Marks and the fractional number, all enclosed by an angled sight ring and hung in a weighted gimballed bowl with locking arm. The chain fusee movement with maintaining power, the freesprung cut and compensated bimetallic balance set on a smaller sub-plate with diamond endstone in double screwed chatons, to an Earnshaw type detent escapement. Ticking, together with a case key and safety winding key. The case 19cms wide.