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A VICTORIAN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH POOLE'S AUXILIARY
D. McGregor & Co., No. P/4304, circa 1892
The silvered dial signed and numbered D. McGREGOR & CO MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY. GLASGOW & GREENOCK P/4304, Roman hour numerals, 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 with chain guard and carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary and circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical spring, in rosewood two-tier box with (altered) glazed top, recessed brass handles
113 mm. dial diam., 207 mm. wide box
D. McGregor & Co., No. P/4304, circa 1892
The silvered dial signed and numbered D. McGREGOR & CO MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY. GLASGOW & GREENOCK P/4304, Roman hour numerals, 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 with chain guard and carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with Poole's auxiliary and circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical spring, in rosewood two-tier box with (altered) glazed top, recessed brass handles
113 mm. dial diam., 207 mm. wide box