Lot Essay
This chronometer is circa 1898; the top lid is probably later.
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A STAPLE BALANCE EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Dent, No. 49602
the silvered dial signed and numbered Dent (within triangle) Maker to the Queen, 61 STRAND & 4 ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON. No. 49602, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, main frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel back pivot, sub-frame assembly with chain protector guard, carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, staple balance with polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 602, gimballed in three-tier plain mahogany box with ivorine circular plaque to centre section inscribed DENT 49602, external small brass drop handles, 115mm. dial diam., 220mm. sq. box
Dent, No. 49602
the silvered dial signed and numbered Dent (within triangle) Maker to the Queen, 61 STRAND & 4 ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON. No. 49602, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, main frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel back pivot, sub-frame assembly with chain protector guard, carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, staple balance with polished steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl numbered 602, gimballed in three-tier plain mahogany box with ivorine circular plaque to centre section inscribed DENT 49602, external small brass drop handles, 115mm. dial diam., 220mm. sq. box