Lot Essay
Edward Baker is recorded at C. Angel Terrace, Islington, London, 1829-1856. The escape wheel has thirteen teeth.
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A Mid-19th Century Two-Day Marine Chronometer Edward Baker No. 1045 (circa 1840)
The silvered dial signed and numbered Edward Baker, London No. 1045, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, 15,600 count train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles -- Dial diam. 74mm: Box 155mm. square
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The silvered dial signed and numbered Edward Baker, London No. 1045, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, 15,600 count train, Earnshaw escapement, cut bi-metallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl gimballed in plain three-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles -- Dial diam. 74mm: Box 155mm. square
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