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A Mahogany Two-Day Marine Chronometer
John Poole, London, No.713, circa 1840,
silvered dial signed and numbered Poole, London, 713, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds with steel hand, up-and-down dial with gold hand, gold hour and minute hands, signed and numbered fusee movement with Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with two segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl gimballed in three tier brass bound mahogany box, the top with a brass plaque inscribed T. Le Dain, external drop handles.
95mm. dial diam., 157mm. sq. box.
John Poole, London, No.713, circa 1840,
silvered dial signed and numbered Poole, London, 713, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds with steel hand, up-and-down dial with gold hand, gold hour and minute hands, signed and numbered fusee movement with Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with two segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl gimballed in three tier brass bound mahogany box, the top with a brass plaque inscribed T. Le Dain, external drop handles.
95mm. dial diam., 157mm. sq. box.