A VICTORIAN TWO-DAY MARINE CHORNOMETER

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A VICTORIAN TWO-DAY MARINE CHORNOMETER
McLachlan, No. 445, circa 1835

The finely engraved silvered dial signed and numbered McLachlan. LONDON No. 445, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued steel hands, pillar-plate numbered 443, Earnshaw escapment, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, bezel with convex (perspex) glass, gimballed in plain two-tier mahogany box, external brass drop handles
103 mm. dial diam., 173 mm. wide box

Lot Essay

A Hugh McLachlan is recorded at 17 Upper Street, Smithfield, London, EC, 1810-1859.
Behind the dial are the repairers marks C. Evered - May 1863 Resprung - 73 Longford. Bristol: NEGUS N.Y.C. 9-53 iw CARRIQUES 17.9.1942.

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