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BROCKBANK ATKINS & MOORE, NO. 2159; CIRCA 1890
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An eight-day marine chronometer
Brockbank Atkins & Moore, No. 2159; circa 1890
The silvered dial signed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore London No. 2159, Roman hour numerals, outer minutes dial with five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main-frame assembly carrying reversed fusee barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly carrying the remainder of the train and chain protector, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier mahogany box the bottom and middle sections brass bound later replacement plain top lid, middle section with inset bone disc inscribed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore, flush recessed carrying handles
122 mm. dial diam., box 208 mm. sq.
Brockbank Atkins & Moore, No. 2159; circa 1890
The silvered dial signed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore London No. 2159, Roman hour numerals, outer minutes dial with five minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main-frame assembly carrying reversed fusee barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly carrying the remainder of the train and chain protector, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with cyclindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal, three-tier mahogany box the bottom and middle sections brass bound later replacement plain top lid, middle section with inset bone disc inscribed Brockbank, Atkins & Moore, flush recessed carrying handles
122 mm. dial diam., box 208 mm. sq.