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A Victorian rosewood and brass-mounted two-day marine chronometer, circa 1845
The 90 mm. diameter silvered Roman dial with subsidiary up/down and seconds rings, signed D.McGregor/Greenock/No.135, gold hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with two cylindrical heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance and steel spring detent with jewelled locking stone, plain top plate, brass bowl with winding cap and gimbal to three-tier brass-bound box with bone roundels inscribed 135 and MCGREGOR, drop-down handles -- the box 164 mm. square; key
The 90 mm. diameter silvered Roman dial with subsidiary up/down and seconds rings, signed D.McGregor/Greenock/No.135, gold hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with two cylindrical heat compensation weights, polished steel helical balance and steel spring detent with jewelled locking stone, plain top plate, brass bowl with winding cap and gimbal to three-tier brass-bound box with bone roundels inscribed 135 and MCGREGOR, drop-down handles -- the box 164 mm. square; key
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