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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
Poole, No. 973
The silvered dial signed and numbered Poole LONDON 973, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, main frame assembly carrying reversed fusee, barrel and centre wheel, sub-frame assembly with chain guard and carrying remainder of train and Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with segmental heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, dovetail spring detent with jewelled locking stone to side of banking block, brass bowl with 'percussion arm' cover to winding hole, gimballed in later three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with flush recessed brass handles
113 mm. dial diam., 212 mm. sq. box
