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A VICTORIAN TWO-DAY ROSEWOOD MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH POOLE'S AUXILLIARY, CIRCA 1880
Reid & Sons, Newcastle Upon Tyne, No.1093
silvered dial signed and numbered Reid & Sons, Makers To The Admiralty, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1093, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, blued steel seconds and up-and-down hands, Earnshaw escapement, bimetallic balance with Poole's auxilliary, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, gimballed brass bowl numbered 1368, brass bound three-tier rosewood box with external brass handles, inside, the trade label of KELVIN, BOTTOMLEY & BAIRD, with mahogany deck box and rating certificates.
95 mm. dial diam., 168mm. sq. box
During the 1920's this chronometer was in use on the yacht "OSPREY".
Reid & Sons, Newcastle Upon Tyne, No.1093
silvered dial signed and numbered Reid & Sons, Makers To The Admiralty, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1093, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, blued steel seconds and up-and-down hands, Earnshaw escapement, bimetallic balance with Poole's auxilliary, cylindrical heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, diamond endstone, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, gimballed brass bowl numbered 1368, brass bound three-tier rosewood box with external brass handles, inside, the trade label of KELVIN, BOTTOMLEY & BAIRD, with mahogany deck box and rating certificates.
95 mm. dial diam., 168mm. sq. box
During the 1920's this chronometer was in use on the yacht "OSPREY".