Details
A two-day marine chronometer,
the silvered dial signed Robert Roskell, MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY, LIVERPOOL No. 1675/63304, Roman hour numerals, Arabic five-minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, up-and-down dial with gold hand, subsidiary seconds dial with blued-steel hand, within it the legend RESPRUNG BY J. BRUCE & SON - LIVERPOOL, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with POOLE'S auxiliary, blued-steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in brass-bound three-tier mahogany box, the middle section with inset rectangular plaque inscribed Robert Roskell, Maker to the Admiralty, LIVERPOOL No. 1675/63304, flush recessed brass handles, inside the box a trade label of ANTIGUA CASA ROSELL, BARCELONA -- dial dia. 95mm., box 180mm. square
See Colour Plate 5 and details
the silvered dial signed Robert Roskell, MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY, LIVERPOOL No. 1675/63304, Roman hour numerals, Arabic five-minute intermarkers 60-5-10 et seque, up-and-down dial with gold hand, subsidiary seconds dial with blued-steel hand, within it the legend RESPRUNG BY J. BRUCE & SON - LIVERPOOL, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with POOLE'S auxiliary, blued-steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl, gimballed in brass-bound three-tier mahogany box, the middle section with inset rectangular plaque inscribed Robert Roskell, Maker to the Admiralty, LIVERPOOL No. 1675/63304, flush recessed brass handles, inside the box a trade label of ANTIGUA CASA ROSELL, BARCELONA -- dial dia. 95mm., box 180mm. square
See Colour Plate 5 and details