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ARNOLD. A SILVER OPENFACE POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH FITTED WOOD BOX
ARNOLD. A SILVER OPENFACE POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH FITTED WOOD BOX

SIGNED JN. R. ARNOLD, INVT ET FECIT, LONDON, NO. 2194, 1825

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ARNOLD. A SILVER OPENFACE POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH FITTED WOOD BOX
SIGNED JN. R. ARNOLD, INVT ET FECIT, LONDON, NO. 2194, 1825
Gilt-finished full plate chain and fusée movement, Arnold spring detent escapement, free-sprung bi-metallic balance with compensation weights, blued steel helical hairspring, diamond endstone, silver cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, plain case, dial and movement signed, case and cuvette stamped with maker's mark TH (Thomas Hardy) and London date letter K for 1825
60mm diam.
出版
Illustrated and discussed by Hans Staeger; 100 Years of Precision Time Keepers from John Arnold to Arnold & Frodsham, Stuttgart, 1997, pp. 219-220 and 243-244.

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Accompanied by a fitted wood box stamped VR & Co.

It is interesting to note that the movement of the present lot is an unusual lay out for an Arnold pocket chronometer using a flat mounted balance cock over a cut plate.